HyBF: A Hybrid Branch Fusion Strategy for Code Size Reduction
Rodrigo C. O. Rocha, Charitha Saumya, Kirshanthan Sundararajah, Pavlos Petoumenos, Milind V. Kulkarni, Michael O’Boyle · 2023
Binary code size is a first-class design consideration in many computing domains and a critical factor in many more, but compiler optimizations targeting code size are few and often limited in functionality. When size reduction opportunities are left unexploited, it results in higher downstream costs such as memory, storage, bandwidth, or programmer time.