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The stupid quip about sufficiently advanced compilers has actually been true until relatively recently, and shipping shared libraries has also been a thing for

The stupid quip about sufficiently advanced compilers has actually been true until relatively recently, and shipping shared libraries has also been a thing for a while until recently (we basically ship shared libraries as statically linked these days, aka containers)

cogman10 7y ago
I'd say roughly around 2010 maybe 2015, compilers got to the point where they didn't totally suck at vectorization. Before that point, yeah, they were just too dumb to be able to make Itanium fast.
- dnautics 7y ago
  Polyhedral optimization is going to be exciting too.