Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c++:2125 comp.lang.c:14383 comp.lang.forth:673 comp.lang.fortran:1539 comp.lang.misc:2205 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!orr From: orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Assembly or .... Message-ID: <1988@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 28 Nov 88 17:26:16 GMT References: <1388@aucs.UUCP> <729@convex.UUCP> <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <6529@june.cs.washington.edu> Reply-To: orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 13 In article <6529@june.cs.washington.edu> kolding@uw-june.UUCP (Eric Koldinger) writes: >Ah, but wouldn't that be nice. Optimizing compilers that could generate >code as good as we can generate by hand in all cases. Let me know when >someone writes one. Ah, but wouldn't it be nice. People that could write code as good as optimising compilers can in all cases. Let me know when one is born. Optimisers are good at some things, people are good at others. It all comes out in the wash. ===Fraser