Re: What can we optimize (was Re: Schwartzian transforms)

[John Porter]

Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> ... proposed writing C (or C++)
> code for Perl 6 so that "modern CPU architectures are happy" (no
> pipeline stalls because of "if"-s, etc.)  ... in
> general, for large codebases, the C compilers are much, much,
> better in optimizing than humans.

I totally agree.  That would just be absurd.

We need to keep our priorities straight.  We have to
live with the fact that perl might scream a little more
on one platform than on another.  Far better for us
to write code that is maintainable for the long haul.
Shoot, by the time perl7 comes out, the C compilers 
will just be that much better (and the hardware that
much faster).

-- 
John Porter