Op 2019-10-27 om 10:46 schreef Florian Klämpfl:
Am 27.10.19 um 10:27 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
If you genuinely believe that micro-optimization changes can make a
difference:
Submit patches.
As said: I am against applying them. Why? They clutter code and after
all, they make assumptions about the current target which not might be
always valid. And time testing them is much better spent in improving
the compiler and then all code benefits. Another point: for example
explicit inline increases normally code size (not always but often),
so it is against the use of -Os. Applying inline manually on umpteen
subroutines makes no sense. Better improve auto inlining.
Auto inlining is also no panacea. It only works with heuristics, and
is thus only as good as a formula of the heuristic.
Changing calling conventions, vectorizing, loops all complicates that,
and it will never be perfect, and a change here will lead to a problem
there etc.
If you know a routine can evaluate to one instruction in most cases, I
don't see anything wrong with just marking it as such.
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