[Coco] Devastated. Long term OVCC project falls short

[Richard Cavell]

I spend time on C/C++ chat groups, and there is clear doctrine these days that the mainstream compilers do a better job of optimizing assembly than almost any human.

The only humans who are capable of beating the compilers are the ones who are developing the compilers, and then only as a result of painstaking research.

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On 08/10/2019 at 02:02, Joel Rees wrote:

> Random thoughts.
>
> Intel has been so busy tuning the open source compilers and the Intel
> silicon to each other it must be no surprise to find that writing
> large-scale assembler code by hand is going to conflict in fundamental ways
> with all the cheats Intel puts in things. Some of the problems (register
> width, segment layout vs. caching, wrapper ABI) have been mentioned, and
> there is more.
>
> It's not even worth trying to optimize any Intel processor code at the
> assembler level, except for some minor in-lining.
>
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