From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510
Date: 1999/11/28
Date: 1999-11-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccyabi4iib.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 81putt$sa8$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
>...The thread is not about whether it is
> reasonable to write anything in assembler, it is the interesting
> technical issue of whether compilers can do a better job than
> expert humans writing assembler language. ...
I think that's a meaningless question, unless you're willing to specify
how much time and money one is allowed to spend. Is it fair game to
write a brute-force optimizer that takes exponential time (in the size
of the program)? Is it fair to give the programmer an arbitrarily long
time to think about it? Are you willing to totally rewrite 100,000
lines of code when one minor change is made? How big is the program
anyway? It seems to me that unless there are limits, the question is
pointless.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-24 0:00 Compiler for Z80/6510 Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Frank Klemm
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Wil
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Peter Milliken
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <01bf38cb$be9b2b60$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-13 0:00 ` carr_tom
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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