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Re:Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of as... by adrianN on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:16AM (#38898969)
For small pieces of code I would try to use a superoptimizer like souper.
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Re:Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of as... by a1o on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:05AM (#38900212)
https://github.com/google/souper

It looks like it only supports Linux and macOS - no Windows, but no other things too like mobile.

It seems it exists for ten years, I wonder what optimizations aren't still picked by the recent compilers.

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Re:Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of as... by adrianN on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:16AM (#38900277)
Compilers need to balance compilation speed with optimization. SMT solvers are right out for speed reasons.
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