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Profile-guided optimization

In computer programming, profile-guided optimization (PGO, sometimes pronounced as pogo ), also known as profile-directed feedback (PDF) or feedback-directed optimization (FDO), is the compiler optimization technique of using prior analyses of software artifacts or behaviors ("profiling") to improve the expected runtime performance of the program.

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In computer programming, profile-guided optimization (PGO, sometimes pronounced as pogo ), also known as profile-directed feedback (PDF) or feedback-directed optimization (FDO), is the compiler optimization technique of using prior analyses of software artifacts or behaviors ("profiling") to improve the expected runtime performance of the program.

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