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From: norvell@csri.toronto.edu (Theo Norvell)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Cost/Benefit of compiler optimization techniques?
Keywords: optimize, design
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Date: 29 Nov 90 03:47:18 GMT
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In article <9011280511.aa16546@ICS.UCI.EDU> Ira Baxter <baxter@zola.ICS.UCI.EDU> writes:
>I am interested in finding out the "most useful" optimizations ... by
>comparing average quantitative payoffs which rank them ... to some
>measure of the average effort to implement that optimization ...
>Additional useful information would be something like conditional utility,
>i.e., if technique A is used, then technique B is X% less useful.
			                               ^^^^ (or more!)

An ought-to-be classic work on just this question is Fredrick Chow's thesis,
done under John Henessey:

Author:       F.C. Chow
Title:        A Portable Machine-independent Global Optimizer - Design and
              Measurements
Report:       CSL T.R. 83-254
Publisher:    Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
Availability: cost: $8.25

Theo Norvell
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