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Re: [PR 18143] thunk range
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>, gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 01 Nov 2004 10:29:17 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PR 18143] thunk range
- Organization: Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science
- References: <41860C95.5050002@codesourcery.com><20041101105722.GR30497@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
| On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:14:45AM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
| > PR 18143 is about a problem with the newly restricted thunk range.
| >
| > Option 1 is to revert the restriction.
| > Option 2 is to add a sorry.
| >
| > Option 1 is unarguably to be preferred, if it has no down sides.
| > Unfortunately it does. Reverting the patch makes lang_decl bigger, and
| > that impacts compile time -- by a surprising amount. I built
| > --disable-checking compilers on both powerpc-apple-darwin and
| > i686-pc-linux-gnu and then measured the -O0 compile time for QT. There
| > was a 1% slowdown on both platforms. This is bad.
|
| Speed is important, but not as important that we should add impose artificial
| limits on the users IMHO.
| So I'm for Option 1.
Strongly agree here. INSHMO.
-- Gaby