Re: why visual studio does not optimize constructor in this case
George wrote:
Hi cd,
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Here is my perpective mentioned
below, about why I think there is room to make optimization and not
quite hard. Any comments?
You appear to be operating under a false assumption - that there's a
technological reason for the lack of any particular optimization in the
compiler/toolchain. Very commonly, optimizations are left out of the
compiler because they can be shown (e.g. via static code analysis) to have
little benefit to real world code bases. The compiler writers simply don't
have the luxury of implementing every optimization that's ever been
described in a research paper, so they have to choose carefully those
optimizations that can be implemented using a tractable amount of resources
(i.e. VC++ team resources) and that have a significant impact on the
performance of real-world code bases. Optimizing for contrived demo
programs is not a very good use of a very scarce resource, afterall.
-cd
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