On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 18:53:03 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: > >If I were the deity symbol-table management would be more important >than blank suppression; but, as John Cocke showed conclusively, this >is not the case. It is almost a law of nature that intellectually >interesting problems turn out in the end to be practicallly less >important than humdrum housekeeping issues. > You've made that assertion before, and I was astonished before, as I am this time. I can find a wikipedia article on John Cocke which refers to a wikipedia article on the CYK algorithm, but none with measurements supporting the assertion. Absent any informed statement to the contrary, I must believe it, though I would have guessed code generation/optimization -- common subexpression elimination; operator strength reduction; etc.
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