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| From | Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Swapping logic |
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Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.lonestar.org> writes: > Which is of course complete nonsense. It's the kind of thing that > happens when somone's _opinion_ that is implictly based on one > specific use case gets treated as undisputable and universal fact. > The smallest system I've ever used C on had 53 bytes of RAM. You try > making the argument that the correct solution is _always_ a temporary > variable in that kind of environment. The argument isn't that the temporary is the best (object code) solution, the argument is that a "good enough" compiler will optimise the C-code-with-temporary into optimal object code. The problem is that the "good enough compiler", like the "True Scotsman", is frequently a mythical beast.
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Re: Swapping logic Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-23 09:15 -0400
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Re: Swapping logic Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-23 14:19 -0400
Re: Swapping logic Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-09-24 10:57 +0100
Re: Swapping logic Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2012-09-26 05:20 +0000
Re: Swapping logic Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-09-26 06:46 +0100
Re: Swapping logic David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-26 08:16 +0200
Re: Swapping logic Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-09-26 17:51 +0100
Re: Swapping logic Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-09-23 18:19 +0000
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