blog: Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:
> Please forgive me for ragging on about this, but you had originally concluded 
> that it was the code generator's fault.

I was wrong, of course. For me a compiler was a black box, I didn't understand the difference between code generation and calling a built-in div function. Thank you for listening to me, for fixing that performance problem, and for all the answers you have given in the last years :-)

Bye,
bearophile