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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:27:28 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
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Subject: Re: corruption
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:05:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> To be honest, I have a big problem with micro optimisations
> that prevent the big optimisations from happening.
> 
> Would it be an idea to explicitly comment such dangerous
> micro optimisations so people implementing the big optimisations
> later on won't run into nasty surprises?

Did you read the code we're talking about?

Andrea
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