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Re: malloc attributes and realloc
- From: kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 03 Jan 2004 17:33:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: malloc attributes and realloc
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bkorb@veritas.com (Bruce Korb) wrote on 02.01.04 in <3FF5CAF0.63FFA3DA@veritas.com>:
> The purpose of GCC and other development tools is to facilitate
> the construction of working software. Is the optimization facilitated
> by alias invalidation sufficient to warrent the non-intuitive
> programming complexities caused by that malloc-like attribute?
> The answer is, "No." It is inconceivable that any performance
> improvement will be measurable.
Actually, you'll find claims upthread that the attribute causes a quite
measurable compile time improvement for current gcc *right now*.
You not being able to conceive it says more about you than about reality.
MfG Kai