On Friday, 12 December 2014 at 00:20:30 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
More generally, you don't want to optimize anything in the
frontend:
- It is gonna create unscrutable code for debug.
- You optimize before inlining, and so won't get the
optimization allowed by inlining.
You want to add metadata to your IR int he front end to inform
the middle and back end. You proceed to :
- optimize callee
- estimate cost of inlining optimized callee and possibly
inline
- optimize caller
Note that this is a recursive process. You may do a second
dance in the backend to get all platform specific optimization
going on.
Thanks deadalnix. I thought about using meta-data. I guess this
is the most sensible road.
