Re: profile-directed optimization

2008-09-21 Thread Bruno Haible
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. However, it is impractical: I never used profile-directed

Re: profile-directed optimization

2008-09-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Bruno Haible wrote: 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. However, it is impractical: I never used