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GCC Operation Compile 200-ish LOC at -Os: Mission Failed (badly) (godbolt.org)
1 points by rpnx 248 days ago
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rpnx 248 days ago
Ran across this while writing the Quxlang compiler frontend. Was wondering how GCC/Clang solved this problem... turns out at least with regard to GCC... they don't!
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rpnx 248 days ago
200-ish line C++ file with no user-defined templates generates around 90k assembly lines with -Os enabled.
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