From:	"Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	Good compilers.
Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 1993 14:11:33 -0500

]Let's say I'm writing an attack program. Instead of writing all of the
]individual nested functions myself, in the interests of speed of
]completion, I'll simply include the general libraries necessary of many of
]the functions within my attack program. STRIP then goes through my
]program and munches out those included library functions that aren't used
]or are redundant.


But, Rob, ol' chum, there are already compilers that do that in the 90s. I
know this. I own one. The precompiler goes through and eliminates all
functions or subroutines in the libraries that are not called. Now, if the
whole point of this ( and I address this to everyoone, not just to you) is to
try to extend existing logic to 2054, then I say that this process would be
part of the resident compiler that the decker would use (unless he's hot enough
to code everything in hardware on the fly -- HAH!), making smaller code.
This , unfortunately has nothing to do with the speed of the program, as these
functions are never called. Therefore, I call the whole discussion moot, as we
can already apply a prosent situation to the future.

This modern-day toy does not make the program any less portable. I see no
reason to believe that the futuristic one would.


--Flare <NULLSIG COURTESY OF DOOM>

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