I still think it's truly awesome that I can just hapilly write my code in Haskell on a very high level, while in the meantime other people will hack on the compiler and core libraries and magically make my programs run faster!
Seriously, thank you for doing research in this area. It will put us forward.
You can apparently blame C for the belief that a programmer should have to optimize code themselves.
Though I'm waiting for the itanium/ILP optimized haskell compiler. It's one of the few languages that tracks side effects enough that it seems possible to actually build the "sufficiently smart compiler" that Intel always claimed would materialize to make itanium a good idea.
People write comments when they feel that they have useful contributions to make. It is much easier to notice that you have nothing worthwhile to say about a vectorizing compiler than about, say, the NSA.
One way to get around this is to go meta, e.g. to discuss the commenting habits of others instead of the submission.
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Seriously, thank you for doing research in this area. It will put us forward.
Though I'm waiting for the itanium/ILP optimized haskell compiler. It's one of the few languages that tracks side effects enough that it seems possible to actually build the "sufficiently smart compiler" that Intel always claimed would materialize to make itanium a good idea.
It's a reference to that incident where intel's C compiler was checking the vendor strings to turn on certain optimized pathways.
One way to get around this is to go meta, e.g. to discuss the commenting habits of others instead of the submission.