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Subject: Re: ELO Formula/Table

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 12:39:22 10/15/99

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On October 15, 1999 at 12:04:28, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 15, 1999 at 01:31:47, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>[snip]
>>I'm not sure I can stomach this.  I can see how a naive implementation would
>>find it easier to perform inlining if routines in a file are ordered from
>>depended on to depends on, but this shouldn't really matter one iota with
>>today's compilers. (!?)
>GCC (for instance) does terrible if you don't put them in the right order.  Try
>it yourself, if you don't believe me.  You'll be shocked.  Most others just do a
>little better.  However, the code distance is also very important.  You want to
>put the code as close to where it is called as possible.  It sounds absurd, but
>you can get up to 25% improvement by judicious choice of function location.

It sure does sound absurd.  They must be doing ten things at once instead of
doing everything "right".  Slow compiles are okay if they run faster... sigh.

Dave



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