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tptacek on Oct 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.

Profile-guided optimization is decades old. It was, for example, one of the things people loved about the (Ultrix?) DEC Alpha compiler was profile-driven optimization.

wglb on Oct 8, 2012 [–]

First VMS.

That was one of the outstanding compilers ever written.

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