From mccarthy@phoenix.rsn.hp.com Fri Sep 19 11:57:25 1997 Return-Path: mccarthy@phoenix.rsn.hp.com Received: from anise.ee.cornell.edu (ANISE.EE.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.210.14]) by neanderthal.ee.cornell.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20282 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:57:14 -0400 Received: from cornell.edu by anise.ee.cornell.edu (4.1/1.6.10+n-y-Cornell-Electrical-Engineering) id AA03420; Fri, 19 Sep 97 11:54:12 EDT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by cornell.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15301 for jstimson@neanderthal.ee.cornell.edu; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:54:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.235]) by cornell.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15077 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:54:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phoenix.rsn.hp.com (phoenix.rsn.hp.com [15.99.99.12]) by palrel1.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id IAA16921; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phoenix.rsn.hp.com (8.7.5/1.28) id KAA14164; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:52:48 -0500 (GMT+5:00) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:52:48 -0500 (GMT+5:00) Message-Id: <199709191552.KAA14164@phoenix.rsn.hp.com> X-Ph: V4.1@cornell.edu (Cornell Modified) From: Cliff McCarthy To: jhango@mit.edu, jjs15@cornell.edu (John Jacob Stimson) Subject: Hamlet's optimizer (fwd) Reply-To: Cliff McCarthy Status: RO >From: jerryw@imagine.convex.com (Jerry Whelan) To: jaggi@imagine.convex.com, mccarthy@imagine.convex.com Subject: Re: Hamlet's optimizer Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:40:31 -0500 (GMT+5:00) >From comp.arch... -} As I approach my 2Bth birthday (Saturday), -} I ponder what would have happened if -} Hamlet had an optimizing compiler: -} -} 2B or not 2B, that is the question -} 2B or FFFFFFD4, that is the question (first pass) -} FFFFFFFF, that is the question (final pass) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Whelan -- Information Superman jerryw@convex.com