ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) (05/28/91)
In article <1991May27.134736.6450@sco.COM>, david@sco.COM (David Fiander) writes: > Most of the bugs reported against > HCR-PCO (the Portable Code Optimizer) turned out to be bugs in the > application source which worked until an agressive optimizer hacked the > code into something else. What's HCR-PCO? Sounds interesting. -- Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then you cannot do better than give him Hegel to read. -- Schopenhauer.
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (05/28/91)
In article <6000@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >> Most of the bugs reported against >> HCR-PCO (the Portable Code Optimizer) turned out to be... > >What's HCR-PCO? Sounds interesting. Probably the optimization technology that HCR sold commercially, to compiler suppliers, for a long time. (Possibly they still do, although they're now a branch of SCO rather than an independent company.) It's proprietary and expensive. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry