On Sunday, 4 December 2016 at 01:36:50 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
First, presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OIEZAj243g
Some of this is available in LLVM today, and everything
presented here will be in 4.0 . The long story short: ThinLTO
can do most of what LTO does but with a price that is much
closer to the one of a regular build than the one of a classic
LTO build.
LTO optimization can devirtualize all function that do not need
to be virtual, and even use profile infos to speculatively
devirtualize - aka JVM grade devirtualization.
I would love to see this leveraged to finally put to rest the
final vs virtual debate. If we use this tech properly,
everything that do not need to be virtual can be finalized -
except across shared object, which shouldn't be too much of an
issue in practice.
My understanding was that the main argument for final by default
was that it is easy to make the wrong decision for a method to be
virtual and then going from virtual to final would break the
compatibility.
