[m-dev.] Report on --inline-linear-tail-sccs

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 02:03:35PM +1000, Michael Day wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> >                       w/o             w (0 extra)     w (1 extra)
> >No. Mutual calls:          720           127           721  ( A bug? )
> 
> What's the w 1 extra about?

Zoltan added an extra option for this optimisation.  It will inline N extra
call sites (in this case 1).  It makes the optimisation more applicable at
the cost of increasing the code size.

w is for "with" as in "with the optimisation enabled".

Cheers.

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Paul Bone
http://paul.bone.id.au