Re: For those wondering "Why Playstation 3s?"

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Steve I'm a PC, so shut up Consultant join:2001-03-10 Yorba Linda, CA	reply to TSI Gabe Re: For those wondering "Why Playstation 3s?" said by TSI Gabe : That was the C compiler optimizing my code into doing nothing quite literally. Sometimes those C optimizations don't really help... It's far more likely that your optimizer found a bug in your code than you found a bug in the optimizer. The problem with compilers is that they do exactly what you ask them too bad women and children won't follow that example Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl \| Unix Wizard \| Microsoft Security MVP \| Orange County, California USA \| my web site
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TSI Gabe Premium,VIP join:2007-01-03 Chatham, ON	No Actually removing a printf simply displaying the value being calculated completely removed the md5 function from the code.
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Steve I'm a PC, so shut up Consultant join:2001-03-10 Yorba Linda, CA	said by TSI Gabe : No Actually removing a printf simply displaying the value being calculated completely removed the md5 function from the code. The compiler did what it was supposed to do: if you were calling a function that had no side effects, it knew that it could eliminate the call without having any effect on correct operation. It was right. Benchmarking is a known science; calling your operation in a way that insists on a side effect (as I'm sure you found) lets you get the effect you want. Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl \| Unix Wizard \| Microsoft Security MVP \| Orange County, California USA \| my web site
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