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In article <871yia7fr2.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says...
>
>john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) writes:
>> It's been mentioned before on a couple of occasions, but Tartan (as
>> was) wrote a paper identifying why their Ada compiler produced faster
>> code than assembler.
>
>This is pure marketing, of course.  Hand-tuned assembler code will
>always be as fast as or outperform code generated by compilers because
>a human programmer can always take the code generated by a compiler if
>he cannot do any better, while the compiler hasn't got this option.

In the Tartan case they were talking about assembler written from scratch in
assembler. They weren't talking about hand-optimizing compiler output vs. not
doing that.

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