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by etaioinshrdlu 1940 days ago
Machine-code outlining sounds kind of like the opposite of function inlining. Right down to the name! I am amazed I've never heard of this optimization technique being used in compilers before -- it sounds like it could improve performance in many cases by making code smaller (or hurt performance for the same reason that inlining can help performance)...