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| Re: Optimization techniques DrDiettrich1@netscape.net (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2019-04-20) |
| Re: Optimization techniques rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com (Rick C. Hodgin) (2019-04-19) |
| Re: Optimization techniques DrDiettrich1@netscape.net (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2019-04-20) |
| Re: Optimization techniques gneuner2@comcast.net (George Neuner) (2019-04-20) |
| Re: Optimization techniques david.brown@hesbynett.no (David Brown) (2019-04-23) |
| Re: Optimization techniques david.brown@hesbynett.no (David Brown) (2019-04-23) |
| Re: Optimization techniques david.brown@hesbynett.no (David Brown) (2019-04-23) |
| Re: Optimization techniques rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com (Rick C. Hodgin) (2019-04-24) |
| Re: Optimization techniques martin@gkc.org.uk (Martin Ward) (2019-04-25) |
| Re: Optimization techniques david.brown@hesbynett.no (David Brown) (2019-04-25) |
| Re: Optimization techniques 847-115-0292@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2019-04-25) |
| Re: Optimization techniques 847-115-0292@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2019-04-26) |
| Re: Optimization techniques 847-115-0292@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2019-04-26) |
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| From: | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:43:17 +0200 |
| Organization: | A noiseless patient Spider |
| References: | 19-04-004 19-04-012 |
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| Keywords: | C, optimize |
| Posted-Date: | 24 Apr 2019 10:20:51 EDT |
| In-Reply-To: | 19-04-012 |
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On 20/04/2019 00:27, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Am 17.04.2019 um 15:42 schrieb Rick C. Hodgin:
>> Are there resources someone can point me to for learning more about
>> time-honored, long-established, safely applied, optimization
>> techniques for a C/C++ like language?
>
> I'm always a bit sceptic when C/C++ and "safe" occur in the same
> sentence.
C and C++ can certainly be used safely. But the programmer needs to
know what they are doing, and want to write safe code.
> AFAIR a C compiler is allowed to ignore parentheses when
> reordering expressions, what can lead to numeric instabilities.
For floating point operations, such re-arrangements could lead to
numeric instabilities - and they are not allowed.
For signed integer operations, brackets that affect calculations can't
be removed. The compiler can't change "(a * b) / c" into "a * (b / c)".
But mathematical identities such as associativity and commutativity are
valid because signed integer overflow does not happen - thus "a * (b +
c)" can be changed to "(a * b) + (a * c)".
And of course the evaluation of sub-expressions can be done in any order.
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