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Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort?

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort?
Date 2017-02-03 18:39 -0800
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> The necessary feature also existed in just about almost every compiler
> around 1990--treat any access performed via void** as potential access to
> any other pointer type.  Today, however, it's fashionable for compilers to
> say that if the Standard doesn't require them to recognize aliasing even in
> cases where it would obviously be useful, they should assume that code won't
> rely upon it even in cases where it obviously does.

Yes, yes, we heard you the 23rd time.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 10:36 -0800
  Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-03 17:15 -0600
    Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-02-03 16:26 -0800
      Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-05 02:58 -0600
        Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-02-05 03:01 -0800
          Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 13:03 +0000
          Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-06 04:30 -0600
        Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-02-05 10:07 -0800
  Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-02-03 16:42 -0800
    Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-04 13:46 +1300
      Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-02-03 16:57 -0800
        Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-02-03 18:39 -0800
    Re: language changes to optimize for speed in qsort? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-02-04 11:28 -0800

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