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NVIDIA Working On "-flto-partition=locality" GCC Option To Boost Performance For Some CPU Workloads

NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO) process

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