tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11467244.post8094082424595579048..comments2008-06-26T19:14:19.304-04:00Chris Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07265018778273203357noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11467244.post-27233081212196356142008-06-26T19:14:00.000-04:002008-06-26T19:14:00.000-04:00I think your right in both cases. I remember one incident where 3 of us were trying to optimise some code and one of us hadn't done compilers. They were just voodoo to him, so he didn't get it when we were discussing the heap vs local variables.Tim Yenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03910041717054478120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11467244.post-34685898952926307092008-06-25T22:26:00.000-04:002008-06-25T22:26:00.000-04:00Hi Tim,<BR/><BR/>Did you mean how a compiler works in terms of how is parses the source code, or did you mean how it generates the compiled code?<BR/><BR/>The former is good know if you have deal with text parsing. The latter is probably more important if you are trying optimize your code or determine why production code is behaving differently than the code in your debugger.Chris Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07265018778273203357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11467244.post-24007193313246539772008-06-25T20:55:00.000-04:002008-06-25T20:55:00.000-04:00it is useful to know C as it is also useful to know compilers. It isn't mandatory and not that much use, but a better understanding of whats actually going on is good in my book. Helps me debug things betterTim Yenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03910041717054478120noreply@blogger.com