The computers are fast, but you don't know it

Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it by spc476 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:31PM (#31771228)

TCC is a fast compiler. So fast, that at one time, one could use it to boot Linux from source code! But there's a downside: the code is produces is slow. There's no optimization done. None. So the trade off seems to be: compile fast but slow program, or compile slow but fast program.

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Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it by scarmig on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:56PM (#31771487)

The trade-off is more of a gradient: e.g. PGO allows an instrumented binary to collect runtime statistics and then use those to optimize hot paths for future build cycles.

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Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it by tester756 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:14PM (#31771675)

is this actually this binary?

I mean what if there are features that take significant % of whole time

What if getting rid of them could decrease perf by e.g 4%, but also decrease comp. time by 30%

would it be worth?

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