From: Richard<rgrdev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:50:10 +0200
Date: 2008-07-22T12:50:10+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g64e15$tm8$2@registered.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1c421bda-5526-42e5-9a3f-96cb33bf86a0@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com
Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 22 Jul, 09:39, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
>> Gautier a écrit :
>
> <snip>
>
>> > [this] comes from the time of
>> > non-optimizing compilers for PC's - around 20 years ago. At that time a
>> > i++ was faster than a i:= i + 1, sure. But it was long long time ago.
>> > Never heard of GCC ?...
>>
>> When I started working on a (Pascal) compiler, this optimization was the
>> first one I introduced in the compiler, because it was the easiest one
>> to do. And it was 30 years ago...
>
> Pascal has a ++ operator?
It was probably added as lesson 2 in an under graduate compiler course.
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2008-07-14 11:18 computer language used to program Mars Lander jhc0033
2008-07-14 11:21 ` jacob navia
2008-07-14 21:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-14 11:49 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-15 7:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-16 6:02 ` jhc0033
2008-07-16 21:57 ` Brian
2008-07-23 14:43 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-23 22:53 ` Larry Elmore
2008-07-24 6:59 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 7:18 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:14 ` Grant Rettke
2008-07-24 7:39 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 7:51 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 9:40 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 20:39 ` Brian
2008-07-25 6:10 ` jhc0033
2008-07-25 20:29 ` Brian
2008-07-26 3:03 ` jhc0033
2008-07-26 6:09 ` Brian
2008-07-24 8:40 ` pls.mrjm
2008-07-24 9:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-24 11:35 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-24 12:15 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:36 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-25 21:19 ` j.oke
2008-07-25 22:34 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-07-25 23:30 ` Joost Kremers
2008-07-26 12:41 ` j.oke
2008-07-26 12:51 ` j.oke
2008-07-17 21:56 ` Paul Hsieh
2008-07-17 22:30 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-17 23:03 ` Default User
2008-07-18 0:03 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 0:02 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 0:08 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 18:02 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-07-18 18:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-18 18:37 ` Pascal Obry
2008-07-18 19:45 ` Gautier
2008-07-18 20:26 ` jacob navia
2008-07-18 21:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-18 21:14 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 20:45 ` Richard Tobin
2008-07-22 8:39 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 10:45 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-22 10:50 ` Richard [this message]
2008-07-22 11:20 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 21:11 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-23 8:40 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-23 13:00 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-26 11:13 ` Antoninus Twink
2008-07-22 12:05 ` Chris Dollin
2008-07-22 13:39 ` Walter Banks
2008-07-14 15:31 ` george.priv
2008-07-14 15:38 ` Keith Thompson
2008-07-14 21:29 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-15 12:04 ` Stephen Leake
2008-07-15 13:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-15 23:35 ` Phaedrus
2008-07-16 5:21 ` christoph.grein
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