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164 points mpweiher | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 06:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source

1. derefr ◴[03 Sep 25 14:17 UTC] No.45116095[source]▶

For a moment I misread this, and thought LLVM had introduced an optimization flag specifically for when your code will be used in backend software.

(Which... that seems like an interesting idea, now that I think of it. What, if anything, could such a flag hint the compiler to do?)

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2. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[03 Sep 25 14:21 UTC] No.45116145[source]▶

> What, if anything, could such a flag hint the compiler to do?

Favor throughput over latency?

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