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Subject: Re: Unexpected and difficult to understand SIGSEGV
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"Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> To see the entire development cycle, first is getting things to
> work correctly and making the code well-designed (and implied
> in that, easy to read and understand).  And secure.
>
> The comes speed optimizations, on the C-level, compiler settings,
> profiling and so on.
>
> When all higher-level or reasonable approaches are exhausted, then
> Assembly-level programming can begin.
[...]

And that last step is rarely necessary.

-- 
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"