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Re:A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture by rwmj on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:29AM (#19777384)
The basics don't change. There was this rather fun talk on HN 2 weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19657983 where he asserts that only 8 optimizations are necessary to get about 80% of best case performance, and all of those were catalogued in 1971.
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Re:A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture by felixangell on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:20AM (#19778077)
Wow, that's a really interesting fact. I hope you don't mind but I updated the article to reference this and credited you accordingly :^)
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