-funsafe-loop-optimizations

[Robert Dewar]

Paul Schlie wrote:

> Well considering the fact that most of the worlds processor consumption (by
> orders of magnitude), are based, and likely will continue to be based 16-bit
> or less processor architectures, which not only care about 16-bit or less
> ints and pointers, but rely on them; it should likely be considered
> sufficiently significant to warrant concern. (although fortunately, most
> optimizations related to overcoming inefficiencies of deeply pipelined
> larger machines are largely irrelevant on smaller lightly pipelined
> architectures with closely coupled memory sub-systems).

This is a little misleading, yes, most of the worlds processors are 16-bit
or less, but if you count programs, you will find that 32-bit processors
dominate by a huge margin. That's because the typical pattern is a million
watches with the same (rather small and simple) program.
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