Re: [fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

2021-10-16 Thread José Mejuto via fpc-devel
El 16/10/2021 a las 21:57, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel escribió: Certainly possible, and would address the whole function pointer thing, although I do question the performance hit because of the extra jump, especially for small procedures, as well as the fact that the function overhead

Re: [fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

2021-10-16 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
Certainly possible, and would address the whole function pointer thing, although I do question the performance hit because of the extra jump, especially for small procedures, as well as the fact that the function overhead would still be present.  Certainly a safe start though. Gareth aka. Kit

Re: [fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

2021-10-16 Thread Yuriy Sydorov via fpc-devel
On 16.10.2021 21:45, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: I figured that virtual methods would be no-go and that this would only apply to static methods.  It seems a shame to dismiss it completely though because there's a huge number of procedures that compile to the same code, especially

Re: [fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

2021-10-16 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
I figured that virtual methods would be no-go and that this would only apply to static methods.  It seems a shame to dismiss it completely though because there's a huge number of procedures that compile to the same code, especially when generics come into play, and I have identified a fair

Re: [fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

2021-10-16 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
Sounds like "procvar = @myproc" would be -O4 at best due to the side-effects, otherwise I would wonder if it's possible to track such references, especially with units that are pre-compiled. Gareth aka. Kit On 16/10/2021 15:32, Jonas Maebe via fpc-devel wrote: On 13/10/2021 19:33, J. Gareth

Re: [fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

2021-10-16 Thread Jonas Maebe via fpc-devel
On 13/10/2021 19:33, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: I figure this would be a whole-program optimization though due to inter-unit calls and comparisons and the like. Usually this is an optimisation that is performed at link-time because you don't need any compiler-level information for

Re: [fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

2021-10-16 Thread Benito van der Zander via fpc-devel
Hi,  that is a great idea It especially useful for generics, where each specialization can create a huge amount of identical methods Best, Benito On 13.10.21 19:33, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: Hi everyone, So one optimisation that has cropped up a couple of times is finding