preston@libya.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) (01/04/91)
I wrote: >Has anyone ever measured the efficacy of any of these algorithms? and the moderator noted >[Szymanski's papers have some effectiveness results. His first paper reports >that in some pile of PDP-11 code, his algorithm shortened considerably more >branches than the one the assembler used. -John] Actually, I meant more along the lines of runtime improvements. My personal speculation is that this whole area is a source of only insignificant improvements. I could easily be wrong though -- that's why I was wondering about empirical measurements. Preston Briggs -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request.