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On 9/11/19 4:33 PM, Pengfei Li wrote:
> In the past two days, I am working on what you suggested.

Great!

> So far, I have completed the coding work, but I need some time to make
> sure there are no bugs and verify the impact on performance.

It would probably be hard to measure with sufficient confidence in terms 
of runtime performance, but you could use e.g. ./scripts/bloat-o-meter 
to look for unexpected code increase due to compile-time optimizations 
becoming runtime.