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by slavapestov 1119 days ago
> Both clang and gcc support `-fprofile-generate`. Beyond that generic infrastructure, in my area (DL compilers) if you're not doing PGO/autotuning you're not serious.

How many binaries in a typical Linux distro are built with PGO for example? The answer is approximately zero.
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mathisfun123 1119 days ago
Your point? Because your first goalpost was "most compilers don't even support PGO". And now the goalpost is Linux distros? How about this one - how many binaries at FB/G are built with PGO? Answer: a great deal (llvm/bolt is a FB project and MLGO is a G project).
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slavapestov 1119 days ago
My point is that the view of a compiler as a series of transformation passes from a source program to machine code, implemented as pure functions, is an entirely appropriate way to describe how they work in a random introductory blog post?

Congratulations on your recent PhD in quantum machine learning or whatever -- I hope you find some way to speed up FB/G's ad serving algorithms by 1% and land that promotion. I'm sure you're very smart.

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mathisfun123 1119 days ago
>My point is that the view of a compiler...

Your point in bringing up Linux was to reiterate your original point? Interesting.

> I hope you find some way to speed up FB/G's ad serving algorithms by 1% and land that promotion. I'm sure you're very smart.

lol

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