Self Optimizing Code

[Mark J Twain via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 21:09:46 UTC, ikod wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 19:25:08 UTC, Mark "J" Twain 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 18:18:51 UTC, ikod wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 22:06:38 UTC, Mark "J" Twain 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Another new D feature here!
>>>>
>>>> Self-Optimizing Code is a fantastic research area that can 
>>>> lead to greater improvements in code, make them more 
>>>> responsive to individual applications, and requires very 
>>>> little effort.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like this:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC_LLVM_profiling_instrumentation
>>
>> No, I don't think so. The best I can tell is this is just 
>> profiling. This would be having the program itself profile
>
> This is not just profiling, but "Profile-Guided Optimization 
> (PGO)"

Yes, but that is still profiling. It is static profiling while I 
am talking about dynamic profiling. It is similar, but it doesn't 
happen while the program is in use by the user.

That is, simply, the programmer runs the profiler and it 
optimizes the code then ships it as final to the user. I am 
talking about the user running the program and the program 
optimizes itself. Big difference!