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Re: mainline "exploding"
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Joe Buck wrote:
> Certainly if we have two inlining algorithms we have to keep maintaining,
> tuning, and bug-fixing two inlining algorithms. Making the poorer one go
> away seems advisable.
Definitely, from an engineering point of view.
> I might have been confused, but the main argument I heard against using
> unit-at-a-time all the time was memory, so if we actually need more
> memory to use the old algorithm in many cases, that kills that.
The case where we (currently) do not use unit-at-a-time has regressed
extremely, that's why I found it more expensive. Until recently, this
case was much lighter, but still perhaps unit-at-a-time plus some lower
threshold is a good idea.
Gerald
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