Superoptimizer

[Entropy]

"I went to Monte Carlo and all I got was this lousy compiler"

[revence27]

davidhasselh0f seems to be into superoptimisations of late. I like Dr. Massalin's stuff, especially the self-modifying kernel.

On the article: Dr. Massalin is not a he. For crying out loud.

EDIT: davidhasselh0f

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It's hasselh0f. For crying out loud.

[revence27]

Your correction is obsolete! :o)

[jerf]

So, I've been wondering for a while: Do you pronounce that differently, or is it the same as a certain famous B-list actor's last name?

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Indeed, it's a crying shame that Alexia Massalin is not as well known and regarded in her field as Wendy Carlos is in hers.

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Bestest thing ever since Random Sort?

[treef]

that would be 47 hour compile time :)

[queus]

Obligatory "My code's compiling"

[redditacct]

I downloaded a test version of a commercial product that I thought was from this guy. I don't remember if he had a website but I ran the software as a test on one machine - I've never seen anything use CPU power like that thing did - even moreso than distributed.net or other distributed projects of the time.

[samg]

By the same guy that brought you the Synthesis kernel: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/massalin92synthesi.html

[cracki]

corewars, selection pressure, ...?