
Yeah, we tried it. It actually made our programs run slower. BOLT kept pestering the processor for "Likes", and bombarded it with advertisements for vapor-chamber coolers and ED pills.
Facebook has open sourced a binary optimization and layout tool, itself optimized into the acronym BOLT, in the hope it can make large applications faster. The compiled code for large applications – the sort Facebook runs – tend to be too big to cram into the instruction cache of a modern CPU, explains Maxim Panchenko, …
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