profile-guided optimization

Compiler optimization technique in computer programming that uses profiling to improve program runtime performance

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Also known as profile-directed feedback · feedback-directed optimization · PGO · FDO · PDF · Feedback-directed optimisation

Subclass of: compiler optimization

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In computer programming, profile-guided optimization, also known as profile-directed feedback (PDF) or feedback-directed optimization (FDO), is the compiler optimization technique of using prior analyses of software artifacts or behaviors ("profiling") to improve the expected runtime performance of the program.

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Uses: profiling

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