Re: small GC tweak

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:55:22PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> writes:
> 
>     Zack> This should be a small performance improvement.  However I
>     Zack> do not have numbers (and the compiler seems to be getting
>     Zack> slower, overall, lately).
> 
> How annoying, considering that a week or two ago I spent a lot of
> effort speeding it up!  I've got more speed-up patches, but waiting
> for the branch.

I am not sure whether it isn't the ENABLE_CHECKING stuff slowing it
down.  Depending on how good the optimizer is this week, that can vary
quite a bit.  I always seem to forget to turn it off while doing
performance tests.

Only figures I have are that make bootstrap took 1h05m last night and
40m back in December.  This isn't very helpful.

>     Zack> Bootstrapped i686-linux; ok to apply?  (after the branch?)
> 
> Yes, this is OK after the branch.

For head only, or for head and 3.0?

zw