Re: [tlug] Alternatives to sed + awk

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 9 March 2011 13:40, Nicolas Limare <nicolas+tlug@example.com> wrote:

> [Josh Glover wrote:]
>
>> I think this is a fallacy. I challenge you to profile your code and
>> show that you can regularly beat gcc with the optimiser turned up.
>
> I usually agree with you. But in some cases, gcc can't beat the
> brain.

I agree; I said "regularly beat gcc". Humans can certainly
out-optimise gcc in certain special cases.

However, there are a lot of very smart people working on compilers, so
some hand-rolled assembly that beats gcc today might not necessary do
so tomorrow.

-- 
Cheers,
Josh