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Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC, WIP: RTL cost improvements
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 05:54:40PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> > We need it, for example, to properly cost the various define_insn_and_split
> > (for which "type" is only an approximation, and is woefully inadequate
> > for determining cost).
>
> But define_insn_and_splits could override the cost explicitly if they
> need to. That seems neater than testing for them in C.
All 190 of them? Not counting those that are define_insn+define_split
(we still have way too many of those).
Neat, indeed, but not altogether practical :-(
Segher