Article-I.D.: denelvx.17
Posted: Thu May  2 12:48:28 1985
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 > 					   This is wonderful in prin-
 >  ciple, but it does not take a lot of effort to figure out that
 >  within subroutines this could have rather large implications, i.e.
 >  either that the compiler write opts for execution efficiency and
 >  ignores the possibility of overlap, or that he conform to the
 >  standard, implements all operations using temporary arrays or
 >  strings, and generates programs that grind along forever.

	Or the compiler is "smart" enough to figure out when it needs
to do which.

			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
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	but it's free"		!denelcor!neal