Re:Parallel GCC: a research project aiming to parallelize a ...
by nwmcsween on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:48PM
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OT but why isn't there a compiler that simply does absolutely basic passes to get the IR into a 'normalized' form then apply optimizations based on a 'database' of super optimized 'chunks'? For unoptimized parts run the super optimizer.
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Re:Parallel GCC: a research project aiming to parallelize a ...
by exikyut on Saturday September 14, 2019 @08:28PM
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So basically a code lowering engine that works a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife. Interesting!
(NB. Googling "lowering" turned up the seemingly-random https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422944; that page isn't such a bad set of starting links, so I figured I'd include it.)
Re:Parallel GCC: a research project aiming to parallelize a ...
by Eug894 on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:44AM
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Please, read this idea regarding use of superoptimizers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GSv89tiQmPDcnFEu4n4CqfaJcUJ...