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livemusic
12y ago
Yeah, I realize it was an open-ended question. I'm just curious if one was starting a (C-like) compiler from scratch, where the biggest bang for the buck comes from. It seems like peephole optimizations are already handled at runtime
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livemusic
12y ago
Only loosely related, but I'm curious: What compiler optimizations have the biggest impact on scientific / floating point computation? Integer (audio/image) ops? With modern CPUs performing speculative execution, register