From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4045 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2004 03:15:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 4038 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2004 03:15:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2004 03:15:50 -0000 Received: by nile.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 338) id 4F2BAF2D96; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:15:50 -0500 (EST) To: dnovillo@redhat.com, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu, s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Message-Id: <20040117031550.4F2BAF2D96@nile.gnat.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:15:00 -0000 From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01011.txt.bz2 > Moore's Law: "Advances in hardware double computing power every 18 months". > Proebsting's law: "Advances in compiler optimizations double computing > power every 18 years". That's actually a fairly optimistic position. I gave a talk at the compiler conference some years ago on the subject of how successful advanced research had been in slowing down compilers :-)