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- From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:12:40
- Organization: IDIAP (Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle
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- In-reply-to: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu's message of Sun, 22 Nov 1992 13:38:51 GMT
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- In article <By4Dwr.78r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
-
- Full efficiency of code can be attained by hand-optimization, with whatever
- aid one can get from computers, for a given machine.
-
- That's a statement of belief, not of fact. In fact, optimizations
- can get complex enough that they go beyond what any person could
- realistically do manually.
-
- You are also assuming that people care about "full efficiency of
- code". Most people don't.
-
- Thomas.
-