On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 04:49:30 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 04:44:46 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
core.hints
short and simple
core.hints ?
That sounds to weak.
I like "hints". It's immediately clear that the functions don't
do anything and don't change the meaning of your program, they
are just hints.
If I tell the compiler to group function a and function b
together and position them as close as possible to each other
it damn well better do it.
Because If I went trough the trouble of determining that this
has to be done.
I want to use that knowledge.
What you want is much more than what triggered this discussion.
I think for grouping functions, you'll have to fight with the
linker.
If you tell the compiler to expect "true" for a certain bool
expression, it can try to find a better "polarity" of cmp-jmp
code. Note that expected values can propagate. If you force it to
use one polarity or another, I think very quickly you'll end up
having to rewrite your hints when slightly change function
control-flow, e.g. by adding an if-statement that makes it more
profitable to invert the polarity compared to what it was before.
