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Re: Optimizations
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Optimizations
- From: Stan Cox <scox at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 23 Dec 1997 07:51:00 -0800
- References: <199712142230.RAA10693@tweedledumb.cygnus.com><19971216000653.24186.cygnus.egcs@cerebro.laendle>
>I never saw benchmark data (except mine) that said 4 byte is better then
>zero byte alignment (and intel itself recommends 0 on pentiums).
gas and the svr4 assembler have pseudoops that say align to X bytes if it takes no
more than Y bytes to do so. We used this in the DG/UX configuration
after doing quite a bit of benchmark analysis.
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