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Re: Final intermodule patch
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>
> > Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 03:36 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >> Can you expand a bit on how usable this is yet?
> > >
> > > Should be fairly usable, though, it hasn't seen tons of use. It does
> > > all of SPEC (well, except eon) for example, just to give you a flavor
> > > of what has already been though it.
> >
> > 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.
What kind of improvements have you implemented? How does it relate to
the new inlining heuristics code I commited last week?
Honza
>
> (I won't quote numbers because some of them might be confidential, and
> they won't be reproducible on any system you have now anyway.)
>
> --
> - Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>