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Re: [wwwdocs] Some news into gcc-4.6
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:52:38 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] Some news into gcc-4.6
- References: <20100622150351.GA5565@kam.mff.cuni.cz>
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> + <li>Interprocedural optimizations improvements</li>
I think that would be "optimimization improvements"?
> + <li>Interprocedural framework was re-tuned for link time
> + optimization.</li>
"The interprocedural..."
> + functions. Newly; <code>noreturn</code> functions are auto-detected.
"Newly, ...."
> + <p><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#Warning-Options"><code>-Wsuggest-attribute=[const|pure|noreturn]</code></a>
"The <a href=....
> + flag is available to make compiler to inform users when adding
> + attributes into headers might improve code generation.</p></li>
"available that informs users"
"into" -> "to"
> + <li>Inlining heuristics were improved:
> + <ul>
> + <li>A number of problems with large compilation units was fixed.</li>
How about "Scalability for large compilation units was improved
significantly"?
> + <li>Virtual methods are inlined caller is inlined
> + and devirtualization is possible then.</li>
Something is missing/incorrect here?
> + <li>Datastructures used by dataflow framework in GCC were reorganized
"by the dataflow"
> + Compile time of GCC C compiler binary with link time optimization
> + has reduced by over 10% (benchmarked on x86-64 target).</li>
"The compile time of the GCC C compiler binary with link-time...went
down by over 10%..."
Thanks for taking the time to document this, Honza. Please go ahead
and commit a patch looking at the suggestions above, and I will then
have another look and make adjustments if I spot anything.
Gerald