Re: Doubt about formula transcription

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Those who need the speed should use the compiler optimization
options, and the compilers should then do it.

There's nothing guaranteed about what a compilers
will do when asked to optimise.
Nor is there any guarantee what compilers
will optimise even when not asked to optimise.

It use to be somewhat important in very old machines
having limited speed or memory capacity,
when the extra time taken (to produce an optimised
program) was expensive.
But none of those things is important any more,
and the extra time taken is barely noticeable.


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