TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

I am curious why the TPDE paper does not mention the Copy-And-Patch paper. That is a technique that uses LLVM to generate a library of patchable machine code snippets, and during actual compilation those snippets are simply pasted together. In fairness, it is just a proof of concept: they could compile WASM to x64 but not C or C++.

I have no relation to the authors.

https://fredrikbk.com/publications/copy-and-patch.pdf

There's a longer paragraph on that topic in Section 8. We also previously built an LLVM back-end using that approach [1]. While that approach leads to even faster compilation, run-time performance is much worse (2.5x slower than LLVM -O0) due to more-or-less impossible register allocation for the snippets.

[1]: https://home.cit.tum.de/~engelke/pubs/2403-cc.pdf