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Re: profile-directed optimizations


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: profile-directed optimizations
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:01:56 +0200
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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > But the compiler does not know that fstrcmp is called millions of time and
> > that this piece of code needs to be optimized for speed rather than for 
> > space.
> 
> If doing profile-directed optimization, it does know.

Well, it _could_ know. But currently, GCC exploits the profile of previous
runs only for branch probabilities. It does not use it for inlining decisions.
Says the GCC 4.3.0 doc.

Bruno





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