Re: kickass optimizing compilers?

Jan C.=?iso-8859-1?Q?Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen@mediasec.de>
12 Jan 2004 13:32:09 -0500

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From: Jan C.=?iso-8859-1?Q?Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen@mediasec.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 12 Jan 2004 13:32:09 -0500
Organization: MediaSec Technologies GmbH
References: 04-01-044
Keywords: optimize, practice
Posted-Date: 12 Jan 2004 13:32:09 EST

> Can anyone point me at compilers that are considered "state of the
> art" for optimized ASM generation?


I've heard people say that they tried to beat the VAX Pascal and
Fortran compilers, even on some small pieces of code - a loop of
around ten lines, say - and they didn't succeed.


> The best optimizing compiler I've seen was the DEC Alpha C compiler.


Have you also looked at the Fortran compiler? That one should have
been even better - DEC had a lot of experience with high-level
optimizations in Fortran before they had ever written a C compiler.


Jan

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