Peter van Hout wrote:
I lecturer at uni once related a story to us.I remember working for a local IT computer that had an old Burroughs computer that had hard disk platters that were 1.4 metres wide and 6mm thick AND (wait for it) real CORE memory.......
Some guys came to benchmark the Burroughs computer that he used. They loaded the source code
onto the system, aimed the compiler at it, ran the benchmark and it took... 0 seconds.
After some headscratching they looked at the executable and discovered that the compiler had optimised
the code somewhat. Hmmm, this program accepts no data, generates no data, so it must do nothing. OK,
here is the quickest program to do that..... :)
Rex
