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Re: Faster compilation speed
> Let's take my combine elision patch. This patch makes the compiler
> generate worse code. The way in which it is worse, is that more stack
> space is used. How much more, well, my initial guess is that it is
> less than 10% worse. Not too bad. Maybe users would care, maybe they
I assume you have already looked at the horrendity of the code
presently generated by -O0. It's pretty unusable as it is. Who would
really want to use gcc under the influence of "worse than -O0"?
Really.
> I hope that explains my thinking a little bit more. Comments?
> Anything sound wrong? And unforeseen dangers?
Off the top of my head, if you insist on this approach, at least
guarantee that generated code is no worse to debug. That is the only
reason *I* use -O0, to debug.
Cheers.
Aldy