Re: compilation of pattern-matching?

On March 25, 2009 21:38:55 Claus Reinke wrote:

If you don't have that kind of control, and generate code as if there were no hardware-level optimizations, the resulting mismatch will manifest in hard-to-predict variations in performance, making it difficult to see how much or why speed is lost. No fun.

I would think the ultimate for this would be to be able to feed profiling information into the compiler. No messy pragmas all over the code and I would guess there would be other benefits as well (e.g., inlining decisions). Of course it's easy to sit back and suggest things like this -- but I would image quite a whole other kettle of fish to build them. : ) Cheers! -Tyson