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Re: New register allocator branch created
- To: <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Subject: Re: New register allocator branch created
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:23:44 -0500 (EST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<I've worked with the new allocator on both x86, and PowerPC, and while
> it is orders of magnitude better than the old allocator, at least on x86,
> >>
>
> Can you explain what it means to say that a register allocator is powers
> of ten better than another allocator. What metric are you using?
How often it spills and the number of registers needed.
--Dan