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Subject: Re: About compiler optimizations

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 13:07:47 12/19/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 13:17:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 19, 2002 at 13:11:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Not my experience.  It compiles all of Crafty just fine, and the profile-based
>>optimizations seem to work well also.
>
>Crafty is hardly a refernce. You are in SPEC. Everybody who writes
>a compiler, especially if they have hardware interests, is going to
>make damn sure you get compiled correctly. But that doesn't help
>the rest of us.
>
>>As I said, it If you do unsafe aliasing and such, it might
>>have a problem, but nobody here writes that kind of code...
>
>I don't.
>
>An internal compiler error is a sure bug anyway, no matter
>what code it is compiling.

Silly user. The crashes must be your fault! That's a feature, not a bug! ;)
With feedback like that for the Intel C compiler, perhaps there would really be
a market for an optimizer with similar performance that actually worked.

I haven't used Intel C much, but what I did compile never gave me issues.

-Matt



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