ASE2024

Shoot Yourself in the Foot - Efficient Code Causes Inefficiency in Compiler Optimizations

Fengjuan Gao, Hongyu Chen, Yuewei Zhou, Ke Wang

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Abstract

In this paper, we take a different angle to evaluate compiler optimizations than all existing works in compiler testing literature. In particular, we consider a specific scenario in software development, that is, when developers manually optimize a program to improve its performance, do compilers actually generate more efficient code with the help of developers' optimizations?