@RUTGERS.ARPA:rbbb@rice.ARPA (04/16/85)
From: David Chase <rbbb@rice.ARPA> This is becoming a another dead horse, but not as dead as some. If you are interested in some of the things that compilers do, you should also keep an eye cocked at some of the conference proceedings coming out of SIGPLAN (Compiler Construction, POPL). The June 84 Sigplan notices contains a really neat paper called "Analyzing and Compressing Assembly Code". I like it. Also see Jack Dongarra's paper in Computer Architecture News (march 85), and think about the benefits of loop unrolling vs assembly coding (though they did code one routine in assembler to get 356 MFLOPS. Oh well, can't win every argument.) David Chase