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Re: contribution


Andi Kleen wrote:

> Alexey Starovoytov <starlex@eng.sun.com> writes:

>> For example SPECfp benchmark 172.mgrid showed 48% improvement
>> compiled with "-O2 -Ws,-O2,-fno-strict-aliasing" vs plain GCC 
>> with "-O2"

> You could compiled 172.mgrid with gcc twice this way and it showed 
> 48% improvement ? Or did you use a different compiler as backend? 
> If you used gcc - is it known where that huge difference comes 
> from? 

A more important aspect of such a compiler would be idempotency.

I.e., is

	gcc(gcc(x.c)) = gcc(x.c)

?

[ Ducks :-) ]

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