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A comment on What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face?.

Re:What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face? by pwdisswordfish on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:41PM (#14613927)
> In practise, therefore, trying to optimise all parts of a program means doing a so-so job on all parts of a programme.

This reads as if the author had suddenly remembered he's British halfway through the sentence. Quite jarring.

(Not to mention that 'practise' is a verb.)

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Re:What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face? by ltratt on Thursday June 22, 2017 @05:47PM (#14615608)
Mea culpa! Fixed with thanks.
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