[m-dev.] option-finetuning (generating trans-opts)

[schachte at cs.mu.OZ.AU]

On 12 Sep, Nancy Mazur wrote:

> I'd love the SCC-aproach! Our analysis has the problem of dealing
> with mutually recursive predicates defined over several modules. 
> The SCC-compilation approach would solve this. 
> But I don't think that this scheme would be useful for everyday 
> compilation, just when the user requires some kind of heavy optimizations 
> to be done... 

Why?  Finding SCCs is pretty cheap (linear).  If you're just finding
file dependency SCCs, and you can get the dependency graph from .dep
files, it should be very fast.


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