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Re: Final intermodule patch
> X-Original-To: geoffk@foam.wonderslug.com
> From: Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>
> Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
> gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Date: 13 Jul 2003 11:24:37 +0200
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jul 2003 09:22:10.0187 (UTC) FILETIME=[3CA715B0:01C34920]
>
> Op zo 13-07-2003, om 05:53 schreef Geoff Keating:
> > Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> > > Do you have any SPEC numbers that you can share? How much improvement
> > > does it bring?
> >
> > If you just use this patch, you get a decrease in SPEC performance,
> > because GCC's current inlining heuristics don't work very well in that
> > situation. With improved heuristics (Dale's and Stuart's work), we
> > got significant improvement instead of a decrease.
>
> Are you talking about the "old" heuristics or have you tried this patch
> in combination with Jan's improved inlining heuristics (the new function
> body size estimate)?
These are the old heuristics; in fact, on a 3.3-based compiler.
--
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>