Re: RFA: patch modifying ColdFire, power4, an power5 pipeline descriptions

[Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov at redhat dot com>]

David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > The compiler size is increased by 4% with these changes and building
> > insn-automata.c is increased by 2 min (from 1min to 3 min) on 1GHz power4.
> >
> > There is no difference in code for power5 on SPEC2000.  For power4, the code
> > is different but there is no visible difference on SPEC2000 scores.  The
> > SPEC2000 code size is a bit smaller with the new power4 description.
> >
> > I don't know did I answer your question.  Are these changes ok?
> >     
>
> Yes, the patch is okay.
>
> It would be best to hold off on applying the patch until next week so
> that its effect can be distinguished
> from Richi's alias-improvements branch merge.
>   
Ok, I'll commit it in the middle of the next week.

Thanks, David.