On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:22:45PM -0400, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > But these things are rarely going to be a huge win, and I get > > the impression that competing compiler developers only do them > > when they help with standard benchmarks. > > Their loss. I agree with avoiding these micro opts when they cause bloat. > But when you win in both size and speed, IMHO we should do it.
Certainly. I think anything that turns one call into one cheaper call will always win, and we already do a bit of that (as you say, this wins for both size and speed).
