Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucla-cs!sdcrdcf!ism780c!marty From: marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Modula-2 standard Message-ID: <4861@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 17:03:23 EST Article-I.D.: ism780c.4861 Posted: Thu Dec 11 17:03:23 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 04:38:44 EST References: <8612091923.AA23422@olsen.uucp> Reply-To: marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA Lines: 13 In article <8612091923.AA23422@olsen.uucp> nagler@seismo.CSS.GOV@olsen.UUCP (Robert Nagler) writes: >In response to the comments about ``inline'' procedures in M2 (and other >procedure languages. I do not see why the programmer should provide hints >to the compiler or linker as to the ``correct'' way to optimize a particular >program. > [...] >Clearly, I am making a common argument: let the compiler do it, it is smarter >than you are. I know of no compiler that is smarter than I am. When I want a program optimized for execution speed rather than memory usage, I want the compiler to optimize for speed. Marty Smith