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From 1991. Compiler technology has moved on since then and almost all of these transformations are done automatically for you. Hence the guideline now is to w
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
From 1991. Compiler technology has moved on since then and almost all of these transformations are done automatically for you. Hence the guideline now is to write your code to be readable.
Having said that, it's interesting to see what people worried about in 1991, and worrying that people needed to be told these things.
I was there - I remember it well.
- jpablo 16y agoExactly. I was thinking while reading this: "All of this makes the code harder to read and any modern compiler will catch most of this stuff anyway". Then I realized this was from 1991.
- angstrom 16y agoIronically, what really matters is limiting heap fragmentation and memory allocation. Not nearly that exciting or tricky.
- neilc 16y agoOptimizing to improve cache behavior can still be fairly tricky / counter-intuitive.