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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
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 17:03:23 1986
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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