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Re: Bootstrap times on mainline are getting worse
- From: Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:47:04 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: Bootstrap times on mainline are getting worse
> I still think it's worth shrinking processor_costs - we're getting
> nickled and dimed to death on cache utilization, and this is a cheap
> way to get quite a bit of space back.
I agree it does no harm, and potentially some good. Saving a few
hundred bytes is a step in the right direction, even if it'll have
little overall effect on GCC's multi-megabyte memory footprint.
> I'd wait until we really do have a cost above 256 and then change
> just that one entry to unsigned short.
Sounds very reasonable.
Roger
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