From: "John W. Krahn" <krahnj@acm.org>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [comp.os.linux.misc] Re: numerical computations under Linux
Date: 17 Jul 2000 11:07:22 GMT

Subject: Re: numerical computations under Linux
From: Krzys Majewski <krzys@cs.mcgill.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc

I once overheard this conversation between two programmers:

Programmer0: ...I looked at their makefile, and it turned out they weren't even
using gcc's  -O2 option! Half an  hour later, I had  the program running
twice as fast.
Programmer1: It took you half an hour to add the "-O2"?