assume, assert, enforce, @safe

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:12:11PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/31/2014 3:21 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> >And I agree with your stance on those fine-grained optimization
> >switches from your other post. GCC currently has 191 flags the
> >influence optimization[1]
> 
> Just consider this from a testing standpoint. As I mentioned
> previously, optimizations interact with each other to produce emergent
> behavior. GCC has 191 factorial different optimizers. Google's
> calculator puts 191! at infinity, which it might as well be.
[...]

It's actually a number with "only" 360+ digits. :-) There are far larger
numbers between it and infinity, but I get the point, it's impractically
huge, and certainly poorly covered by tests.


T

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