Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ecf_ujaj%jhu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: ecf_ujaj%jhu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: smart compilers Message-ID: <6599@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 19:56:55 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6599 Posted: Sun Dec 16 19:56:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 00:37:09 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 13 Dick Dunnwrites: > FORTRAN is so crippled in terms of > being able to express what's "really going on" in its problem domain that > a decent (let alone smart) compiler has to do a lot of optimization. Compilers that optimize code can break programs regardless of what language that code is written in. Optimizing compilers are very useful as long as the optimization is optional (or at least can be turned off when the code involved may be sensitive to optimization). -jj