On 12 Aug 2010 06:35:34 -0700, [email protected] (McKown,
John) wrote:
>So the programmers don't even need to understand machine architecture any
>more.
>Unfortunately, this leads them to write poorly performing code due to a total
>lack of
>understanding of even basic knowledge of "how it really works". In some C
>code,
>I have actually seen for loops moving data from one char * to another char *,
>instead of using strncpy(). Or doing it with subscripts instead of pointers!
>"for (i=0;src[i];i++) {dst[i]=src[i];}"
Are there optimizers for library languages such as C? Or isn't that
considered important anymore?
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