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Famous vs Aggressive - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between famous and aggressive

is that famous is well known while aggressive is tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.

famous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Well known.
  • In the public eye.
  • Some people are only famous within their city.

    Synonyms

    * famed, noted, celebrated, well-known, renowned * See

    Derived terms

    * famously * famous last words

    aggressive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
  • an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
  • (label) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
  • * 1996 , Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6 , Springer (ISBN 9783540610533), page 59
  • This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
  • * 2001 , Paul Feautrier (edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal), Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems , Springer (ISBN 9783540419457), page 173
  • Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
  • * 2002 , Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation , CRC Press (ISBN 9781420040579), page 465
  • However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
  • * 2002 , Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA , IEEE Computer Society Press (ISBN 9780769516202), page 249
  • The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
  • * 2003 , Susanna Pelagatti (edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch), Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing , Springer (ISBN 9781852335069), page 182
  • This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
  • * 2011 , Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition , Elsevier (ISBN 9780123859648), page 11
  • The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * aggressively * aggressiveness * aggressivity * microaggressive * passive-aggressive