Re: Sparky is losing the race Andrew ... and badly!

From: Lord Isildur (isildur_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 05/16/03 

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:14:01 -0400 (EDT)

...or had the compiler go on for hours and hours optimizing a function
that was only a couple hundred lines long? *grin*

Isildur

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Paddy O'Brien wrote:

> The compiler people do make mistakes, as we all do. Have you never seen
> "Internal compiler error". If you have ever stressed code, you surely
> would.

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