Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hjm From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (hjm) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Query re optimising compilers Message-ID: <789@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 88 15:10:37 GMT References: <561@etive.ed.ac.uk> <5423@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <6376@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <8445@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Reply-To: hjm@cernvax.UUCP () Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 6 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