Re: Re: genetic compilation

Brock <rbw3@dana.ucc.nau.edu>
1 Apr 2000 14:09:15 -0500

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From: Brock <rbw3@dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 1 Apr 2000 14:09:15 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: optimize, architecture
In-reply-to: 00-03-151

Why wouldn't it work for cross-compilation? It seems that the performance
measurement could be done just as well using a table of measured
performance values instead of doing the actual tests, thereby making it
quite possible.


--Brock


> I once read something about compilers that tried out equivalent
> machine code sequences and measured actual performance to decide which
> worked best. This could be used as a basis for a genetic algorithm.
> Of course, such an approach would drive compile times to a new high,
> and it wouldn't work for cross-compilation anyway.


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