Re: New brach 'yara-branch' is created

["Vladimir N. Makarov" <vmakarov at redhat dot com>]

Paul Brook wrote:

> On Saturday 18 March 2006 17:56, Vladimir N. Makarov wrote:
>  
>
> >  I've created a branch for my allocator project which is called Yet
> > Another Register Allocator (or YARA - yet another recursive acronim).
> >
> >  I am think I reached the point when my work on a public branch can
> > be made.  I am focused only on x86 right now.  So YARA will work only
> > for x86 and probably for x86_64 for some tests (at least for SPEC).
> > There is no way that it will work for PPC, Itanium or other targets
> > for now.
> >    
>
> Is this related to, and have you considered the long-term proposal for 
> improving register allocation that was posted on the thislist a while ago?
>
> http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/rable.pdf
>  
Some code might be used for this proposal (especially local allocator 
that is what reload does.  Because I hope it is easier understand than 
reload.  Although i should say that reload is much more superior for 
now).   But generally speaking it is a different project.

I think the more projects for allocator exist, the better it is for 
gcc.  I believe that improvement of reload done by Bernd is important 
too.  Although it is harder for me because gcc is a moving target and i 
see considerable improvements in reload for the last year (e.g perlbmk 
was 25% slower with the current gcc allocator 9 months ago and now the 
gap is only 10%).


Vlad


Vlad