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From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (hjm)
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Subject: Re: Query re optimising compilers
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Date: 8 Aug 88 15:10:37 GMT
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If my memory serves me, some of the new RISCy chips do an explicit test for
zero as they are tweaked for multiplication by small integers, so the compiler
needn't do the optimisation anyway for these chips :-).

	Hubert Matthews