RE: End of optimization...

"Barak Zalstein" <Barak.Zalstein@ParthusCeva.com>
17 Jul 2003 00:24:59 -0400

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From: "Barak Zalstein" <Barak.Zalstein@ParthusCeva.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 Jul 2003 00:24:59 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 03-07-026 03-07-069
Keywords: optimize
Posted-Date: 17 Jul 2003 00:24:59 EDT

> Open source is seductive, for retargeting processors of similar
> architecture and applications it works quite well. For retargeting to
> other application area's and architectures it saves little and costs a
> lot, always competing with the earlier software design constraints. As
> the previous comment points out the software architecture may prevent
> newer optimizations and compiler implementations.
> Walter Banks


Usually these projects infrastructure can be stretched into
application specific domains with low enough cost and high enough
quality/performance. Nowadays, when free or open (or whatever they
call it now) projects supply such a large arsenal of optimizations, it
would probably make sense to write a compiler from scratch only if
your architecture doesn't involve something like instruction set,
registers, pipeline, and units.


Barak.

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