[llvm-dev] TBAA

[Victor Yodaiken via llvm-dev]

I would think that in a language like C, the role of the optimizer should
be to do optimizations that are difficult or impossible or time consuming
for the programmer.
My concern is that TBAA has a trade-off in terms of the complexity of the
language for the programmer so I'd like to know if the tradeoff is really
worth it.
BTW: the programmer based hoisting does not depend on the type of bound
being different from the types off arr - so it is more robust.


vy


On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 10:33 AM Richard Kenner <kenner at adacore.com> wrote:

> > The programmer can get this with a simple change, no?
>
> Sure.  The programmer can do all sorts of optimizations themselves, in
> fact almost all of them.  But the purpose of an optimizer is to do these
> things so that the programmer doesn't have to do that.
>
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