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| From | The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: I don't get it |
| Date | 2021-04-13 21:59 +0100 |
| Organization | A little, after lunch |
| Message-ID | <s550nh$f6a$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (16 earlier) <87o8ejpzv0.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <845c8b8e-d415-4b41-8327-6b31bc50825an@googlegroups.com> <1ae0aa1d-162d-4666-acf9-50376e1acd9fn@googlegroups.com> <8090782c-7564-4881-a97e-70dd1e865674n@googlegroups.com> <87y2dmmgln.fsf@bsb.me.uk> |
On 13/04/2021 14:58, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > The function is doing exactly what you wrote. Not for at least two decades, and certainly not in JavaScript. The function is doing what the compiler and/or interpreter decided you *meant* by what you wrote. Which is why you now have new keywords like 'volatile' to try and force it not to be clever with loop optimisations and Number() to ensure it actually does cast an unknown variable type to a number... Years ago I could look at a bit of C code and translate it into the actual assembler that the compiler would spit out. Today it produces nothing like that at all. So far I have always been impressed at how good it was at optimisation, but as I have said elsewhere, sometimes it gets it wrong. And there are holes in the spec - areas that are 'indeterminate' and up to the whim of the compiler/interpreter and of course things like uninitialised memory. Then when you get to concurrent threads... -- “But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!” Mary Wollstonecraft
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Re: I don't get it Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 12:04 -0700
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Re: I don't get it Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-04-21 01:24 -0700
Re: I don't get it Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-04-21 01:29 -0700
Re: I don't get it Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-04-13 09:32 -0700
Re: I don't get it The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-13 21:59 +0100
Re: I don't get it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-14 01:32 +0100
Re: I don't get it The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-14 09:08 +0100
Re: I don't get it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-14 10:06 +0100
Re: I don't get it The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-14 10:59 +0100
Re: I don't get it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-14 14:05 +0100
Re: I don't get it The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-14 16:32 +0100
Re: I don't get it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-14 23:53 +0100
Re: I don't get it The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-15 13:56 +0100
Re: I don't get it The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-12 11:20 +0100
Re: I don't get it Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-08 15:21 +0100
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