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Re: Small Variant Records in C

From "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Small Variant Records in C
Date 2011-12-19 01:36 +0000
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"Eric Sosman" <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote in message 
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>     This level of squeaky-cleanliness may seem obsessive, but
> remember: RAM is getting slower every year (in comparison to CPU),
> and compilers are getting more and more inventive about avoiding
> RAM accesses in creative ways.  Moderately dingy code that works
> today may fail on the next compiler, or the next machine -- my tale
> of woe happened on just one platform out of the seven our code ran
> on at the time.  Squeaky-clean is your defense against the future.

But the product might be too slow to be successful (if you have to take a 
completely different, and less efficient, approach just so you can give the 
compiler a chance to optimise, and it might not even manage that).

-- 
Bartc

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Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 10:16 -0800
  Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-18 18:50 +0000
    Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-18 15:00 -0500
      Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 12:23 -0800
        Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-18 21:15 +0000
          Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 14:13 -0800
            Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-19 00:26 +0000
            Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 02:25 +0000
              Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 19:08 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 17:24 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 11:43 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-19 15:21 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 13:38 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-19 16:48 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-19 17:19 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 15:14 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 21:44 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 14:02 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-12-19 18:38 +0000
              Re: Small Variant Records in C jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-04 03:52 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-04 20:25 +1300
          Re: Small Variant Records in C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 15:53 -0800
        Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-18 18:35 -0500
          Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 16:01 -0800
            Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-19 00:26 +0000
              Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 17:02 -0800
            Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-18 19:53 -0500
              Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 01:36 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 18:21 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 02:52 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 19:17 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-19 09:24 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 17:18 +0000

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