[Coco] Devastated. Long term OVCC project falls short

[John Guin]

I may have mentioned this before: https://godbolt.org/

It is an online compiler that lets you type in c/c++ and see the assembly different compilers output.  Known informally as "the great argument settler."

But several CPUs now will run code out of order (resulting in unwanted behavior) as part of optimization features, so even when you see the assembly, that may not be what the CPU does.

Still, a terrific site and you should give it a whirl,
John

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Devastated. Long term OVCC project falls short

2019年10月9日(水) 3:17 Richard Cavell <richardcavell at mail.com>:

> I spend time on C/C++ chat groups, and there is clear doctrine these days
> that the mainstream compilers do a better job of optimizing assembly than
> almost any human.
>
> The only humans who are capable of beating the compilers are the ones who
> are developing the compilers, and then only as a result of painstaking
> research.
>

Unfortunately, this is only true for the most popular CPUs in the most
popular run-time architectures, both of which are hopelessly throttled and
broken by such things as Intel's perverse interpretations of the late 1970s
era Unix runtimes.

>

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