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Who would even use such a tool? I expect doing this manually to be one of the fun/rewarding aspects of working on a compiler? Sounds very much like automating
by fooker 2y ago
Who would even use such a tool?
I expect doing this manually to be one of the fun/rewarding aspects of working on a compiler?
Sounds very much like automating the wrong thing similar to AI generated 'art'.
- azornathogron 2y agoThis is a little different to art in that it's less subjective: an optimizer that produces faster code (or perhaps smaller code, or some other optimization goal) is better, and this is measurable using benchmarks. A tool that can give you a better compiler will be used, because people want better compilers.
- fooker 2y ago> because people want better compilers. If you ask developers what they want from their development ecosystem, better compilers wouldn't even be in the top ten.
- saagarjha 2y agoThere are plenty of nontrivial transformations that compilers still have yet to do if you are looking for "art". This just automates a class of optimization so it can be done reliably and generally.
- fooker 2y agoOkay, that makes sense