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Re: Can we speed up the gcc_target structure?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 04 18:50:38 EST
- Subject: Re: Can we speed up the gcc_target structure?
I'm speculating that a simpler specification of classes could be
informed by the needs of the new register allocator. That's all.
I don't see it. The complexity of register class specifications is
dictated by the complexity of architectures, not anything we put into GCC:
it has to be expressive enough to describe all architectures.
Sure, it's somewhat redundant, in that we have maps both ways, and a few
macros could be eliminated in that process, but it doesn't seem worth the
effort to me.