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Re: PATCH: C++ front end & register vars
- To: rth at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: PATCH: C++ front end & register vars
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: 16 Jan 2000 12:37:52 -0000
- CC: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:25:24 -0800
> From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:06:06PM -0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > IMO the stupid allocator is more trouble than it's worth, but we
> > had that argument last year.
>
> My last patch to kill stupid sustained a 6% slowdown at -O0
> for whatever test I'd selected. Do folks still think this
> is too much? It'd be a pity to obfuscate the C++ front end
> because of it...
Yes, and it's not just C++. The Java front end has similar problems
with exception handlers and the "finally" construct.
Andrew.