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Re: abysmal code generated by gcc 3.2
On 21-Oct-2002, Denys Duchier <Denys.Duchier@ps.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:
>
> > Well, if all else fails, you can build compilers from the cvs tree,
> > and binary search for when code generation changed from good to bad
> > for you.
>
> That possibly could reveal what's at the root of the issue, but it
> would not solve my problem which is to get my application to perform
> well on today's distributions. Every Linux distribution is now based
> on gcc 3.2, thus I must get the Oz emulator to perform well when
> compiled with it.
If you can identify a patch that is responsible for a significant
performance regression, then the release manager might be willing
to revert that patch for the next minor release (e.g. 3.2.2).
That would be likely to make it's way into the distributions
reasonably soon.
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