"BOLT" post-link optimizer gives 15% speed boost to Clang

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Tuesday, 23 October 2018 at 22:07:21 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> Hi all,
>   "Post-link optimization", what? Yes, indeed, optimization 
> _after_ the _linker_ has generated a _binary_.
> Read about this interesting work and the discussion here: 
> https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-October/126985.html
>
> When applied to clang, the performance gain is 15% faster 
> execution (note, that's the result of applying BOLT on a clang 
> binary that was already built with PGO and LTO !)
>
> Cheers,
>   Johan

Ahh, another thing to add to the list of cool stuff to integrate 
into LDC.
Its getting rather long.