LR>Hi.  May I suggest to you and Carey to use a 'profiler' if optimization of
LR>your apps is a big issue.  A profiler that you trust and have confidense 

That's not the point of what I keep trying to tell him.
A profiler would only gauge what a section of code does on your machine
with your compiler.  And you end up low level tweaking your code for
that situation, while those same tweaks cause slow downs for everybody
else.  Using pointers vs. arrays is case in point.  Whether it's
'better' depends too much on the compiler and the CPU family.
That's what I've been trying to tell him.  Low level tweakings of
the type he wants to do simply don't hold from one system & compiler
to another.
A lot of people keep trying to educate him, but I guess he's just going
to have to learn the hard way on his own.  After he's had a couple of
years experience programming, he'll probably feel foolish about his
current position.
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