Re: Compiler Optimizing assembler

Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
7 Nov 1996 20:24:26 -0500

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From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 Nov 1996 20:24:26 -0500
Organization: Byte Craft Limited
References: 96-11-029 96-11-045
Keywords: assembler, optimize

JRAITTO.US.ORACLE.COM wrote:


> Having said that, you may find some pattern-matched code transformations
> beneficial in those cases where a particular instruction sequence occurs
> frequently because it had been optimal on the hardware of the day, but a
> different sequence would prove better for modern hardware.


Pattern matchers often deal with boundaries
as the optimizer changes from one mode to another.


Walter Banks
http://www.bytecraft.com
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