Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer From: "Stephen Maudsley" Subject: Re: Post Mortem Organization: esgem limited Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:42:09 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; harset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <6ccegb$mak$1@mendelevium.btinternet.com> Jan Vorbrueggen wrote in message ... >Richard Beton writes: >OTOH, careful use of some of occam's features, especially abbreviations, >produces pretty good code, and the locality of variables in the workspace due >to nested scoping helps a lot, when compared to C, for instance. I've never >missed an optimiser that much, except for the numerically intensive code, >which I hand-optimsed in assembler...actually much easier than I >expected. BTW, anybody know why this "mis-feature" was released, while others >"useful things" were not? I think "released" is wrong - "escaped" is more accurate. The assembler insert was originally a compiler hack to allow some of the processor engineers to more accurately control instruction sequences as part of the test regimes. Hence the name of the original construct GUY after one of the engineers. ISTR that it was essential for resetting channels (as you say elsewhere - a non-occam requirement) for links that were operating in a noisy environment. --------------------- Stephen Maudsley Stephen.Maudsley@btinternet.com esgem limited Tel/Fax: +44-1453-521626 Mobile: +44-370-810991 ---------------------