Profile-Guided Automatic Inline Expansion for C Programs (PostScript version, PDF version)
Pohua P. Chang, Scott A. Mahlke, William Y. Chen, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Software Practice and Experience, May 1992, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 349-369
This paper describes critical implementation issues that
must be addressed to develop a fully automatic inliner.
These issues are: integration into a compiler, program
representation, hazard prevention, expansion sequence control,
and program modification. An automatic inter-file inliner
that uses profile information has been implemented and integrated
into an optimizing C compiler. The experimental results show
that this inliner achieves significant speedups for production C
programs.
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