Re: inlining inefficiencies

[Kurt Garloff <garloff at suse dot de>]

Hi Dan,

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:31:46PM -0700, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> 
>   > Can you have a look at Kurt Garloff's patches which have been
>   > discussed here some weeks agao?  A current version is at
>   > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/freesoft/gcc/
> 
> Those patches deal with deciding what functions to inline. 
> What I've shown is that the code generated after inlining all the
> functions (desired in that case) is inefficient and the optimizers
> can't deal with it.

The problem that I spotted in gcc is that it's unable to remove 
temporaries too often. I have some Matrix class whose [] operator
return a temporary object, basically having a pointer to the 
Matrix and the information which line was selected. This can
be used to create a Vector or an element with a second [] and
the temporary should be removed by the compiler.

The EDG compilers succeed doing so, gcc not :-(

Somebody want some demo code?

Regards,
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