Hi Jerry!
12 Sep 97 23:16, Jerry Coffin wrote to Roger Scudder:
 JC> Yes, though in honesty this is far less common.  Typical examples would
 JC> be C interpreters and P-code compilers.  I don't know of any compilers
 JC> that actually directly find common sections of code and put them into
 JC> functions.
A related optimization could be done at (pre)link-time. If the linker 
compared compiled functions on a byte-by-byte basis and removed dupes, it 
could reduce code size dramatically in some cases. E.g. all instances of a 
template container class handling pointers to generic objects could be 
reduced to a single instance handling all types.
I don't known if any linker does that sort of optimization, but it could be 
interesting to hear if anyone did.
Happy hacking,
Martin
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