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Subject: Re: Re: Re: xsl:for-each evaluator?
From: Jeff Kenton <jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:27:10 -0400
Re:  Re: Re: xsl:for-each evaluator?
Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
One *cannot know* if a program will terminate -- unless this property has a
strict proof.

This is known as The Halting Problem. The following link has a nice description of it:


http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

On the other hand, the original poster had a program that he knew halted. All he wanted was some instrumentation to count loop iterations and measure timing.


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Jeff Kenton
DataPower Technology, Inc.



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