Re: C++

[Sam Mason]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:08:10AM -0800, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>   - front end validates the code, generates high-level IL, does
> high-level optimization.
>   - linker accepts IL, does optimizing code generation.

Fun!  Link times would be even more of a problem then, Google's linker
"gold" was about helping with this a bit (five times?) but if you move
optimization into the linker this is going to get much slower again.

> The interesting challenge in this approach is dealing with library
> interface boundaries. And as you point out, it's not really clear at
> this point that the compile system should treat those as a boundary at
> all.

Explicit control could be nice here; it would also provide a way to
solve the above.  User specified optimization boundaries would turn the
above into a divide and conquer type solution and put things back in
control of the user.

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