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To: damniseedemons who wrote (13918)	11/6/1997 6:46:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Sal, I have to point out that I posted exactly the URL that Mr. Smith did in a previous reply to you, 13912. Yes, optimizing for the benchmark is not particularly smart, but people do it all the time. I don't know what's going on here, I'd guess it's some kind of constant folding that takes advantage of a badly written benchmark. If the particular class being optimized is a standard one, I'd say it's legitimate, if not particularly important. Otherwise, it's bogus, but the whole benchmark is probably bogus if it can be lifted into the compiler. I don't know, but I don't think it's that big a deal one way or the other. Nobody is going to be fooled by one little benchmark that speeds up by 100x, if no improvement is seen in real applications. I detect the unseen hand of the marketing peers in all of this, but I'm paranoid. Cheers, Dan.