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Re: Extremely bad performance compiling bzip2
- To: Osku Salerma <osku at iki dot fi>
- Subject: Re: Extremely bad performance compiling bzip2
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 13:52:47 -0700
- cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.981208223730.3436A-100000@oskula>you write:
> > You'd have to look at the hot loops. It may also be the case that
> > these problems are fixed by current snapshots. We've done a lot of
> > work to improve spill code and register allocation, which can have a
> > big impact on x86 performance.
>
> Egcs 1.1.1 was released five days ago. The newest .c file in the
> sources is six days old. Am I misunderstanding something about the
> egcs development policy or what do you mean by a "current snapshot"?
The easiest way to look at it is there's a stable release tree and an
unstable development tree.
Snapshots happen from the development tree.
jeff