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Re: Performance comparison
Jeff Sturm writes:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I'm sure that's the main reason. Once we get global inlining working
> > I expect to see a decent improvement.
>
> Provided that increased register pressure doesn't ruin the benefits of
> inlining.
I'm thinking of the many small methods that don't increase register
pressure at all. The x86 is a nightmare in this regard, I grant you,
so it may not benefit so much.
> The new register allocator may help, too.
> It'd be nice to have a study on the effects of inlining real-world code
> with GCC on multiple targets. I haven't seen any, and chances are any
> that already exist are obsolete anyway. Meanwhile I've noticed a lot more
> hand-waving arguments than real numbers.
Certainly the numbers I've seen for targets with deep pipelines (+
lotsa registers + speculation) suggest that global inlining can be a
very good thing.
Andrew.