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Re: Libjava failures status
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: sabre at nondot dot org, tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:27:58 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Libjava failures status
<<> However, if you assume that the checks usually pass, and you care more
> about the performance of the normal case, and not so much about the
> performance of generating the exception, and your platform has support
> for it, then it is better to omit the tests and let the trap be
> converted into an exception by the runtime.
>>
It is of course important to check that the use of these traps is indeed
efficient. On some architectures, the traps intefere with the pipeline
more than scheduled tests.