[LC++]Using the "return value optimization"
Vincent Penquerc'h
vincent at qubesoft.com
Mon Aug 13 20:40:04 UTC 2001
> What I would really like it to do, is for return value
> optimization to take the following code:
>
> int a=doSomething(parameter);
>
> and convert it into:
>
> int a;
> doSomething(a, parameter);
>
> It would seem like this is not possible.
The generated code will probably be quite similar, in
terms of speed. The only problem I foresee is that you
use the address of a variable, so the compiler might be
too afraid to affect it to a hard register, though it
could. But if the reference actually points to something
which is on the stack already (eg a local from the caller)
then it will be in the cache already, and it would mean
only an extra indirection. Unless doSomething is trivial,
this should not be a performance concern.
--
Lyrian
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