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RE: An unusual Performance approach using Synthetic registers
- From: "James Mansion" <james at westongold dot com>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:32:18 -0000
- Subject: RE: An unusual Performance approach using Synthetic registers
> application programming in assembler, I found 16 general purpose registers
> not to be enough.
I suspect, however, that this was because you wanted to avoid *coding*
spill logic for registers that were reused infrequently. That's
different for avoiding spills for *material* performance reasons, and
a compiler isn't as lazy as you (or I).
James