Re: optimizing compiler against average assembly programmer.

Stefan Monnier <monnier+comp/compilers/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
8 Jul 1997 00:33:03 -0400

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+comp/compilers/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.asm.x86
Date: 8 Jul 1997 00:33:03 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 97-06-071 97-06-082 97-06-110 97-06-140 97-07-023
Keywords: assembler, performance

rhyde@cs.ucr.edu (Randy Hyde) writes:
> (1) As the title above suggests, the SO produces the *shortest* possible
> program. This is not always the same thing as the *fastest* possible
> program.


[NB: as a mater of course, I haven't read the article]


Isn't there also something to say about the instruction sets? The 68K
has some tricky instructions so I do expect weird combinations to
output unexpected results, but what about more streamlined ISAs as
current typical CISCs ? Would the Superoptimizer really be useful on a
MIPS ?


                Stefan
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