Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbmonet.arnold From: ucbmonet.arnold@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Some questions about the C -Optimise - (nf) Message-ID: <174@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 12:46:27 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.174 Posted: Wed Jun 29 12:46:27 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 07:32:56 EDT Sender: notes@ucbcad.UUCP Organization: UC Berkeley, CAD Group Lines: 10 #R:edai:-208300:ucbmonet:23900001:000:370 ucbmonet!arnold Jun 28 18:19:00 1983 The C compiler has historically optimized for space first and speed second. I believe this came about when proto-UNIX was being re-written in C from assembler to minimize the increase in size. But all optimizers must choose at times between space and speed optimizations, and whichever you choose, situations will be found in which this is a loss for the other. Ken