Tag Archives: gcc

Profile guided optimization with gcc

Posted on 2009/07/27 by

Yesterday I wrote how certain build optimizations can have performance differences – and I decided to step a bit deeper into a quite interesting field – profile guided binary optimization. There’re quite a few interesting projects out there, like LLVM … Continue reading →

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On binaries and -fomit-frame-pointer

Posted on 2009/07/26 by

Over last few years 64-bit x86 platform has became ubiquitous, thus making stupid memory limitations a thing of some forgotten past. 64-bit processors made internal memory structures bigger, but compensated that with twice the amount and twice larger registers. But … Continue reading →

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Crashes, complicated edition

Posted on 2008/08/05 by

Usually our 4.0.40 (aka ‘four oh forever’) build doesn’t crash, and if it does, it is always hardware problem or kernel/filesystem bug, or whatever else. So, we have a very calm life, until crashes start to happen… As we used … Continue reading →

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