Re: material for 3.1 release announcement

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On May  2, 2002, Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> wrote:

> tree based inlining on C by Alexandre (is that already in 3.0?)

Thanks for the reminder.  Ok to install?

Index: gcc-3.1/changes.html
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  </li>
  <li><p><a HREF="http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC";>SPEC2000</a> and <a
        HREF="http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/SPEC";>SPEC95</a> benchmark suites
!       are now used daily to monitor performance of the generated code.
  
        <p>According to the SPECInt2000 results on an AMD Athlon CPU, the code
        generated by GCC 3.1 is 6% faster on the average (8.2% faster with
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  </li>
  <li><p><a HREF="http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC";>SPEC2000</a> and <a
        HREF="http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/SPEC";>SPEC95</a> benchmark suites
!       are now used daily to monitor performance of the generated code.</p>
  
        <p>According to the SPECInt2000 results on an AMD Athlon CPU, the code
        generated by GCC 3.1 is 6% faster on the average (8.2% faster with
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        about 2.1% faster compared to 2.95.3.  Tests were done using the
        <code>-O2 -march=athlon</code> command-line options.</p>
  </li>
+ 
+ <li><p>Alexandre Oliva, of <a href="http://www.redhat.com/";>Red
+       Hat</a>, has generalized the tree inlining infrastructure
+       developed by <a
+       href="http://www.codesourcery.com/";>CodeSourcery, LLC</a> for
+       the C++ front end, so that it is now used in the C front end
+       too.  Inlining functions as trees exposes them earlier to the
+       compiler, giving it more opportunities for optimization.</p>
  </ul>
  
    
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      system-on-a-chip series.  See <a
      href="http://developer.axis.com/";>Axis' developer site</a> for
      technical information.</li>
+ 
+ <li>Alexandre Oliva, of <a href="http://www.redhat.com/";>Red Hat</a>,
+     has contributed a port to the <a
+     href="http://www.superh.com/";>SuperH</a> SH5 64-bit RISC
+     microprocessor architecture, extending the existing SH port.</li>
      
  <li>UltraSPARC is fully supported in 64-bit mode.  The option 
      <code>-m64</code> enables it.</li>


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