Optimizations

LTO (Link Time Optimization)

• Linktime optimization in GCC, part 1 - brief history
• Linktime optimization in GCC, part 2 - Firefox
• Linktime optimization in GCC, part 3 - LibreOffice

PGO (Profile-Guided Optimizations)

• Dr.Dobb’s - Profile-Guided Optimizations

• Wikipedia - Profile-guided optimization

• GCC

  • -fprofile-generate
  • -fprofile-use

IPO (Interprocedural Optimization)

• Wikipedia - Interprocedural optimization