On 16-06-23 04:41 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote: > I am reminded of my colleague Andrzej Dąbrowski from the late > 1960's. He knew the number of machine cycles used by every > instruction on the IBM System 360 Model 40, and the exact machine > code that every line of Fortran compiled to. No matter how fast any > of the rest of us could make a program run, he could always find > a way to make it (slightly) faster. > I'd use him as precompiler's optimizer.