[wplug] Compiler questions

[Bill Moran]

Burt E Reany <breany at csc.com> wrote:
> 
> They used to tell me that about good COBOL, as well - -
> 
>> I heard  well written C code compiled with architecture specific and
>> other optimizations has a trivial difference with native assembler
>> code.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x86.html

If you read through that tutorial, I think you'll realize that any compiled
language is very unlikely to be as optimized as well-written assembly.  The
article talks about certain optimizations that I simply can't imagine a
compiler being able to make.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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