basic-block and profile-based optimizing (was Re: New attribute "infrequent"?)

[mike stump]

> To: Scott A Crosby <crosby@qwes.math.cmu.edu>
> From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:11:01 +0200

> FYI Jan is working on profile-based optimizations at the moment, we've
> just did a small announcement at
> http://gcc.gnu.org/news/profiledriven.html

When to inline in C++ might best be answered by profile based
techniques.  Love to see any results, if someone wires it up and tries
it out.