In message < Pine.BSF.3.96.971207101033.25106F-100000@vespucci.advicom.net >you write: > > > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Toon Moene wrote: > > > III. New loop optimisations. > > > > 1. Moving invariant conditionals out of loops. Compiler folks often refer to this as unswitching. Note that the conditional must be at the top of the loop to perform this kind of optimization. jeff