Re: Smallest Optimizer

martens@cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:37:05 GMT

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From: martens@cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Keywords: optimize
Organization: Hood College Dept. of Math and CS
References: 95-02-144 95-02-185
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:37:05 GMT

preston@tera.com (Preston Briggs) writes:


>suggested including an optimization only if the net effect was to
>speed up the compiler (when compiled with itself).


> you end up with an optimizer that is effective on compilers,
> but perhaps not your application code (e.g.,, optimizers
> don't benefit from vectorization, but many scientific
> applications will).


Also compilers use little if any floating point code. So any
floating point optimization will have no benefit when compiling
the compiler.


-- Jeff (jmartens@nimue.hood.edu)


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