[LLVMdev] Optimization application by llvm-gcc, opt

[Raghu Prabhakar]

Thanks Duncan. Just to make sure I understand correctly, opt has more global information, due to which optimizations can have greater effect than in llvm-gcc, where optimizations are applied on a per-function basis. Is this correct ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Sands" <baldrick at free.fr>
To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:46:23 AM
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Optimization application by llvm-gcc, opt

Hi RaghuB,

> I wanted to clarify something about the application of optimizations by llvm-gcc, opt and llc.
>
> Will the following two sequences generate the same optimized bitcode?
>     a) $ llvm-gcc -O3 -c -emit-llvm foo.c  -o foo.bc
>     b) $ llvm-gcc -O0 -c -emit-llvm foo.c -o foo.bc
>        $ opt -O3 foo.bc

not necessarily, though usually it is the same.  One reason for this is that
the per-function passes run by llvm-gcc are used to clean up functions as they
are output, while with opt they are run after the entire module has been
generated.  The difference is that when a function is output some things like
global variables may have only been partially output (eg may not have an initial
value yet) resulting in less or different optimization.

Ciao, Duncan.
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