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[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>> I keep thinking I should put on a "Compiler Construction" seminar!
>>
>> You should.  The academic courses do a good job with theory and
>> general application, but that isn't quite the same as one based on
>> practical experience.
>
> That's true. I learned the theory taking a compiler construction course at
> Standford, and then tried to apply it. It turns out that there's a lot they
> left out <g> that's needed to actually get those optimizations to work.
>
> Loop induction variables was a big one, because the theory never takes into
> account the fact that you're replacing a signed loop index with an unsigned
> loop pointer. Oops!
>
> It's like in physics class you're always dealing with frictionless brakes
> and pointless masses.

You mean massless points?  Or was that deliberate?

--bb