On Jun 14, 3:34 pm, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was even one example where the C compiler made spectacularly bad > code. I only needed 6 pointer registers (the arch has 8), but the > compiler decided to use only one or two and spilled and reloaded them > from the stack for each use. Yay!
That's one of the worst compiler stories I've heard since 1979! How awful! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list