[Shootout-list] Rule 30

[Isaac Gouy]

--- John Skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:30 -0700, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> > --- Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> > -snip-
> > > Some implementations may precompute it without the reader's
> > > knowledge. More worryingly, some language implementations may
> > > precompute it without the author's knowledge.
> > 
> > Which do?
> 
> ALL compilers do constant folding which is a trivial
> example of this...
-snip-

The question had a specific context - pidigits.

Jon's answer was "We don't know which do. That's the point."

Somewhere between none (an imaginary problem) and all of them.
Perhaps the point is to find someone who knows more.



		
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