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Re: New register allocator branch created
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: New register allocator branch created
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 01 13:53:37 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Indeed, one has to react partly that the new allocator looks good, but
partly also that the old one seems surprisingly bad in this case.
My experience is that we do fairly well on machines with lots of registers,
but quie poorly on machines with very few.