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From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:47:15 +0200
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> This is exactly what makes high-level languages potentially fast:
> the compiler can take your high-level specification, figure out
> what it is that you're actually trying to do, and apply an
> algorithm to solving it that is more efficient than anything you
> could ever have come up with on your own, because it takes
> advantage of years of research on a topic you may never have even
> heard of.
Potentially maybe. Unfortunately, I can't even see how this could
be generally achieved even in the most theoretical sense.
--
Ola - http://www.notam.uio.no/~olagr/
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