It's all tradeoffs. Fully monomorphized generics tend to blow up compile time.
Full monomorphization can also greatly increase code size and icache pressure. Especially if LTO was not possible.
I haven’t seen icache pressure causing performance degradation in the wild but it is in theory possible.
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Full monomorphization can also greatly increase code size and icache pressure. Especially if LTO was not possible.
I haven’t seen icache pressure causing performance degradation in the wild but it is in theory possible.