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

[Jan Hubicka]

> > 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.
Note that Alpha paper mentioned in the annoucement above examines the effect
of various profile-based optimizations and inlining is the most important one in
their results.

Honza