Bill (WL) Boulton wrote:
>
> How about hiring an "optimizing programmer". Better algorythms
> always beat optimizing compilers/assemblers.

As long as they are better than the algorithms used in
the compiler. BTW where as can you buy a programmer
with as much algorimic knowledge as a modern compiler
for a fixed fee no matter how much it is used. Updates
are either free or at a very reduced cost :))

Walter Banks
http://www.bytecraft.com