Re: Data Structure Reorganizing Optimizations

fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Wed, 2 Nov 1994 03:11:16 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.compilers
From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Keywords: C, optimize, design, comment
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
References: 94-10-108 94-10-207
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 03:11:16 GMT

ddg@cci.com (D. Dale Gulledge) writes:


>Simply put, you cannot optimize an interface, unless you can guarantee that
>both sides can accept either the optimized or non-optimize versions, or that
>both sides will be optimized the same way.


But there are some cases where you *can* guarantee this.
Even though most compilers cannot do cross-module optimizations,
the language should allow such optimizations for those compilers which can.


--
Fergus Henderson - fjh@munta.cs.mu.oz.au
[The problem of making sure your modules are compiled with compatible options
is hardly a new one. Consider the memory models on the 8086. -John]
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