Quintus Fabius Maximus
Quintus Fabius Maximus was a Roman General best known for his defeat
of Hannibal in the Second Punic War. His primary strategy was to
delay confrontation; repeated small attacks eventually led to victory
without a single decisive conflict. His conquests are described
in Plutarch's Lives.
Fabius is also the name of a compiler that
automatically defers certain aspects of optimization and code
generation to run time.
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