Summation on HP 42S

[pier4r]

(09-28-2018 12:33 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  The person holding that talk apparently works for a high-speed trading company, where speed is everything. Good for him, but in the places where I have worked, and work today, I would rather disable all optimizations everywhere, and only enable them in those places where they make a significant and predictable difference. Having the compiler surprise me by going Mathematica on me and translating code to a closed-form equivalent strikes me as scary rather than exciting.

This is also a good point. Stability and predictability.