getting rid of data movement instructions

[Mats Wichmann]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:20:59 +0200, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

:"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
:news:mailman.998259150.17466.python-list at python.org...
:    ...
:> This reminds me of the definition of a supercomputer commonly heard in the
:> 80s:  a supercomputer is a box that turns your CPU-bound problem into an
:> I/O-bound problem.  IOW-- and take this to heart! --no matter what you
:> optimize, if you do a good job, one consequence is that "the bottleneck"
:> moves to something you weren't even thinking about.  Or, as Gordon Bell's
:> First Law of supercomputer design put it, Everything Counts.
:
:Hmmm, isn't the numeric expression of this called Amdahl's Law?

Yeah, but it's more fun to quote Gerry Weinberg: "If you fix problem
#1, #2 gets a promotion".

Mats Wichmann

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