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Re: Errr, GCSE being overly conservative?

To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
Subject: Re: Errr, GCSE being overly conservative?
From: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
Date: 20 Jun 2001 11:01:26 -0400
Cc: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106200838270.13342-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> On 19 Jun 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
>> First, if I set MAX_PASSES up to 3, i don't get much of a significant
>> time increase (since it only bothers doing anything if it helped the
>> last pass anyway), however, I do get somewhat better code. Didn't use
>> to happen
>> I'm guessing that now that our global const/copy prop has improved, it
>> might be worth reinvestigating whether to up MAX_PASSES.
> 
> As a first step, making MAX_PASSES use the --param mechanism to make it 
> easier to experiment with changing it would be worthwhile.

Good point, I had forgotten about the param mechanism.
I'll take care of this.

> 
> -- 
> Joseph S. Myers
> jsm28@cam.ac.uk

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- Re: Errr, GCSE being overly conservative?
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