Re: Some thoughts about steerring commitee work

["Daniel Berlin" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On 6/18/07, Sebastian Pop <sebpop@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Dorit Nuzman <DORIT@il.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > I can hand you more than the testcases i've given so far.  There is
> > > tons of code out there that would  benefit from straight line
> >
> > Interesting. I wasn't aware of this potential. Please do send some of this
> > code. thanks!
> >
>
> I'm thinking about loops whose bodies contain a call that is not
> inlined, so the code in that function looks like stright line code,
> but in fact is called from inside a loop.  This could happen even
> because the compiler decided to outline the body of some loop, as
> the case for the openMP code gen, or autoparallelization.
This is in fact, most of the code i will send to dorit.

It is, IMHO, not reasonable, to say that we should inline everything
that may ever turn out to be vectorizable :)

If you throw virtual functions into the mix, it may not even be possible ;)