Compiler Optimizations are Awesome
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1515 [blog.regehr.org]
2017-05-31 08:08
This piece, which I hadn’t gotten around to writing until now since I thought it was all pretty obvious, explains why Daniel J. Bernstein’s talk, The death of optimizing compilers (audio) is wrong, and in fact compiler optimizations are extremely wonderful and aren’t going anywhere.