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Re: Beginner's question:Are there any inter-procedural optimization in GCC backend ?
Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com> writes:
| One case where trees vs RTL may matter is in how we count the size of a
| function, since lowering to RTL may affect the apparent size of a
| function. I am not convinced that this is a significant issue though.
>From the August debate on inlining, that seems to be a much
significant issue than guessed. In particular, it appeared that what
gets counted does matter and affect heuristics and threasolds.
-- Gaby