Talk:Loop fission and fusion
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Proposed merge with Loop fusion
[edit]Opposite things are usually discussed in a single article (i.e. one "Endianness" article instead of separate "Big-endian" and "Little-endian" articles). — Keφr 15:01, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Agreed and
Done. Klbrain (talk) 11:05, 23 July 2017 (UTC) - I don't think that opposites should generally, as a habit/pattern/default, be covered in the same article. I think the example you give does not cover opposites. Endianness is one thing. It has multiple flavors including big and little. What is the common topic that covers loop fusion and fission? I don't think there is one so shoving them together is not natural and IMO not useful or good. Stevebroshar (talk) 10:36, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Compiler optimization?
[edit]The intro says both fusion and fission are compiler optimizations and that means the optimization occurs during the translation from source code to the resulting code (i.e. machine or byte code). But, the example shows two versions in C source code which implies to me that it's a (source) coding technique/optimization. Are the concepts compiler optimizations, and the example uses C to demonstrate the logic difference bc it's convenient? Or are they coding techniques/optimizations? Or both?
If it's strictly a compiler optimization, then I suggest not using C or any particular language. Use pseudocode so that it does not imply that the concept is a source code technique. Stevebroshar (talk) 10:45, 13 January 2025 (UTC)