From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 26 12:29:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E62237B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02783; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:29:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA18278; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:29:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-232.mitre.org (128.29.105.232) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 6467384; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:29:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE87703.69273C08@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:29:07 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Cc: Anton Berezin , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc -O bug References: <20010426144848.B17373@heechee.tobez.org> <5.0.2.1.0.20010426133342.032c48f0@mail.etinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis wrote: > > At 09:11 AM 04/26/2001, you wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:00:15PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > >Nope. The real nonsense is what you say. Perl core is written in a > >highly optimized C using very polished algorithms. As long as the Perl > >script is written in such a way as to minimize the number of OPCODEs > >executed and maximize the time spent inside the OPCODE executor engine, > >it is not exactly trivial to beat it in C, unless you are willing to > >spent a considerable time polishing your code (which is not worth it for > >your typical log analyzer). > > Don't try to argue this ridiculous point on this list. You are badly > overmatched. You are so wrong that its not worthy of debate. Youch! I think most people on this list can see where this is going. Please take this thread to email before it becomes a full fledged inferno. Remember kids: Only YOU can prevent troll fires. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message