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2012 Nov 23
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[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] costing optimisations
...ill too high does it try to do extra breaks with hyphenations (and it was a long time ago I looked at this, but I think once it's decided to hyphenate a given word it stops caring about the whitespace badness of the break in favour of a "non-misleading" hyphenation -- such as avoiding weeknights becoming wee-knights). Anyway, this is becoming a digression. > However, it's also potentially introducing highly > non-predictable/principle-of-least-surprise behaviour into the compiler, > particularly since llvm can be used as a JIT. So I suspect it wouldn't be > something m...
2012 Nov 23
2
[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] costing optimisations
On 23/11/2012, at 8:28 PM, David Tweed wrote: > Firstly I don't think TeX does pre-estimation of work, it's just the > standard stepwise "refinement stuff". I didn't mean that example to be taken so literally. When TeX formats a paragraph, it has to decide where to put line breaks. Breaking a line on a space has less badness that hyphenating a word. If I recall
2012 Nov 23
0
[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] costing optimisations
Hi, Here's a personal perspective on the issue: Firstly I don't think TeX does pre-estimation of work, it's just the standard stepwise "refinement stuff". However, the idea itself isn't necessarily a bad one. In the academic community there's a set of people (John Cavazos, Lous-Noel Pouchet, others I've forgotten) doing work on estimating which sets of