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Re: [PATCH] Shrink some more structures for 64bit hosts


On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Diego Novillo wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:27, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > This re-orders fields in some more (commonly used) structs to save
> > a cache line (or half of it) on 64bit archs.
> >
> > Bootstrapped and tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, applied to trunk.
> 
> Not that I oppose this change, but aren't we still in regressions-only mode?

It helps fixing memory regressions (thus, compile-time related patches
are also welcome at this stage).  It is what I had left on top of what
Jakub already did a few days ago, see

2009-03-18  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>

        * dse.c (struct group_info): Reorder fields for 64-bit hosts.
...

Richard.


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