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Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the leave-it-to-the-machines dept.

Atlasite writes "The WSJ is reporting on a EU project called Milepost aimed at integrating AI inside GCC. The team partners, which include include IBM, the University of Edinburgh and the French research institute, INRIA, announced their preliminary results at the recent GCC Summit, being able to increase the performance of GCC by 10% in just one month's work. GCC Summit paper is provided [PDF]."

19 of 173 comments (clear)

  1. I, for one, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our uh...what were we talking about again?

    1. Re:I, for one, by sm62704 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I, for one, welcome our new humorless slashdot moderating overlords!

      You go for funny and get "insightful", the GP oes for funny and gets "offtopic". Now watch, they'll mod this one "funny".

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  2. We should have recruted Al earlier. by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    This Al guy seem to be a really good developer. We should have noticed his skilled and got him into optimizing GCC a long time ago. ... I like arial font.

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    1. Re:We should have recruted Al earlier. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      This Al guy

      Your post is also confusing. Why abbreviate? Why not say "This A or guy seem"? Or were you just trying to pipe two sentence fragments?

    2. Re:We should have recruted Al earlier. by oskard · · Score: 5, Funny

      Did his joke just go way over your head or did your joke just go way over my head?

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    3. Re:We should have recruted Al earlier. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Not only did he invent the Internet, but now he's optimizing GCC.

  3. Re:MachIne Learning for Embedded PrOgramS opTimiza by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I think MachIne Learning for Quick Target Optimization And Speed Technology would have been a much better forward acronym.

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  4. Aw man... by Thelasko · · Score: 5, Funny

    I spent all week compiling Gentoo just to find out I could do it 10% faster.

    end sarcasm

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    1. Re:Aw man... by jmcguire81 · · Score: 2, Funny

      For those who don't get the joke: http://xkcd.com/303/

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  5. Missing tag by Intron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where is the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag on this article? Was it optimized away by the new AI slashcode?

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  6. How about calling it... by Briareos · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...artificial intelligent design? Should be big with the anti-evolution crowdlet... :P

    np: The Orb - Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Mix) (Orblivion Versions)

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  7. Re:Perhaps the way to other things besides compile by mrslacker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like a Gentoo user's wet dream.

  8. Future bug report... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...after AI/GCC integration:

    "Today's build running 50% slower -- the compiler was in a bad mood."

  9. GCC/AI by I+cant+believe+its+n · · Score: 5, Funny

    GCC goes online on the 2:nd of july, 2008. Human decisions are removed from compilation. GCC begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. GCC Strikes back

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  10. Re:Would you mind telling me by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congrats to you. We're all very proud, you can now wear up to 25 pieces of Slashdot flair to show you belong.

  11. Re:Perhaps the way to other things besides compile by iplayfast · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't this Gentoo as well?

  12. Re:Learning by MrMr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that the optimization method they used to fine-tune Vista?

  13. Re:Perhaps the way to other things besides compile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, Java has been doing this for years. That's why the latest "just-in-time" virtual machines generally run (at least) 10 times as fast as code generated by modern C++ compilers - this is true for any program!

    Even the best hand-crafted assembler can't reach a quarter of the speed of a Java application.

  14. Re:Would you mind telling me by Samrobb · · Score: 3, Funny

    I seem to recall that NASA has published a list of 10,000 or so "official" acronyms so people could keep track.

    I think I still have a copy of DICNAVAB lurking around the house somewhere, left over from my days in the United States Navy. For the uninitiated, DICNAVAB is, obviously, the proper abbreviated name of the wonderful and informative "Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations".

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