[PLUG] Intel C++, GCC compatibility

[Brian Beattie]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:41, Steve Bonds wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Terry Griffin griffint-at-pobox.com |PDX Linux| wrote:
> 
> > There's a lot to this approach. I find I can make my code *much* faster
> > if don't worry so much about having it do the right thing. This opens up
> > many possibilities for some very effective optimizations.
> 
> Kirk McKusick (one of the original BSD developers) used to make fun of
> this approach all the time.  He calls it "wrong answers, delivered
> quickly".

I recall a story that E. Dijkstra told:  He was looking at some code for
somebody that was not working and suggested restructuring the code.  The
person replied that that would be much to slow, he needed the code to
run fast.  To which Dijkstra reponded that it would be easy to make the
program run fast, it it did not need to produce the correct answers.

> 
>   -- Steve
> 
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