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Re: "Experimental" features in releases


dberlin@dberlin.org (Daniel Berlin)  wrote on 18.04.06 in <1145340618.28433.36.camel@dberlin.org>:

> This is in fact, not terribly surprising, since the algorithm used was the
> result of Sebastian and I sitting at my whiteboard for 30 minutes trying to
> figure out what we'd need to do to make swim happy :).

> This would leave -ftree-loop-linear in 4.2, but make it not useful for
> increasing SPEC scores.

So is this an object lesson for why optimizing for benchmarks is a bad  
idea?

MfG Kai


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