Fallacies and Pitfalls
  • Fallacy: More powerful instructions mean higher performance.
  • Fallacy: Write in assembly language to obtain the highest performance.
  • Pitfall: Forgetting that sequential word addresses in machines with byte addressing do not differ by one.
  • Pitfall: Using a pointer to an automatic variable outside its defining procedure.
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