Optimizations

["Virgil Palanciuc" <vv2vv at hotmail dot com>]

>Well, optimizing gcc's memory allocation should be an interesting
>project.  Certainly we do little in this area, so any improvement you
>could contribute would be great.  Also, with the advent of 200+ cycle
>memory misses, it might be fairly profitable.  As for register
>allocation, I would hope that it would be hard to improve gcc's
>scheme, but the right person with the right algorithm...
   My project is specifically for the SC100 family. I never dreamed of being 
able to do any general optimizations (I thought people are trying to 
optimize gcc for too long for me to be able to bring something new in only 
two months). However, if you think optimizing gcc's memory allocation is 
possible (in AT MOST 2 months), write me some details (frankly, I don't know 
how gcc does the memory allocation - my approach was to write a new phase 
that discards whatever memory allocation gcc did so far).

> > schemes for a specific architecture (Motorola's SC100 family).
>Our code isn't specific to any processor and any code you submit that
>we included, would have to be fairly machine independent,or at least,
>it would have to not harm performance on other machines.
    I already explained : I didn't think I can make machine-independent 
optimizations. Of course, I would be glad to be wrong in this matter.

                            Virgil.
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