G+: Modern compilers are pretty amazing in what they …

David Coles
Modern compilers are pretty amazing in what they can do for you. Found this slide deck this evening which contains a survey of 5 well known compilers (GCC, LLVM, ICC, Sun C and MSVC) and how well they handle a number of common optimizations (function inlining, constants, range checks, strength reduction, etc).

http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/compiler_survey_felix_von_leitner.pdf


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