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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (5410)	11/9/1997 12:36:00 AM
From: Beachbumm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well, folks, I still think we have more to worry about from dead Asian markets and currencies on our SUNW investment (and all others too) than any dead code! Beachbumm

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (5410)	11/9/1997 9:08:00 PM
From: Richard M. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Cahrles, >>> There's nothing wrong with removing dead >>> code as an optimization. It would be >>> preferable, however, for the detection of >>> the dead code to be more general than a >>> comparison with known dead code in a benchmark! I believe that the genetleman from Sun "misspoke". The Sparc JIT compiler didn't remove dead code, it removed live code. The removed code was being executed, so it is hardly "dead". Dead code is removed to save space in a program because it is never executed, not make to make a program run faster. Here is a quick example of dead code: if(0) { printf("This printf will never be executed.\n"); } I think Sun needs a new spinmeister, IMHO. Richard