Kee Hinckley on Nostr: nprofile1q…4cgs9 Loop unrolling is older than that though. Although maybe not on ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqrv4738d6q3nxf24v4gmg4u7lh3udmarsttfzp7q0xttdlqk5ls3sx4cgs9 (nprofile…cgs9) Loop unrolling is older than that though. Although maybe not on these platforms, unless they were cross compiling?

It's in the "dragon book" on compiler design in the 70's. And by the 80's, in the workstation space, that and other techniques were common (my ex-wife worked on compiler optimization back then).