Re: New back end ia16: 16-bit Intel x86

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor dot com>]

Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> 
>> That backend just got to the point where we can compare code sizes; the 
>> code appears 10-20% smaller than the i386 backend with .code16gcc and 
>> -Os.  Although that is less than I would have expected, that is without 
>> any optimizations whatsoever and so the resulting code is actually quite 
>>  poor.
> 
>    You could probably save at least as much by using 16-bit integers, thus
> avoiding the 0x66 prefixes.
> 

Yes, with 16-bit integers it reduced the code size even further.

	-hpa