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From: Thierry Goubier <goubier@palmarella.enst-bretagne.fr>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/01/12
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On 11 Jan 1997, Piercarlo Grandi wrote:

[On the subject of inlining by the compiler, with B. Meyer]

> Ideally a compiler would use profiling feedback to evaluate whether it
> is worth inlining a procedure at a given call site, by running the
> program with an without (this check ought to be done for each procedure
> at each call site for which is is possible, and every combination
> thereof :->).

I believe this technology already exists, for example in the Self 3.0 and
4.0 inlining compilers. Things like polymorphic inline caches may be used
as a tool to record profiling information for the compiler.

But I should let interested people look the Cecil/Vortex project to see
how this may be used in static compilation. What Chambers describes seems
to be relevant to this thread. A pointer is :

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/cecil/www/Overview/overview_1.html

Thierry.
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