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Re: ix86 HImode immediates patch


> On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 03:58:53PM +0100, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > Avoiding them brings notable speedups on the PPro on byte benchmark
> > (9.8->10.9).
> 
> Please do not over-tune the port to the byte benchmarks.  That
> package is an abomination -- run 3 instructions 100 million times
> and find out how long it took.
> 
> Please run some more sane benchmarks instead.  SuSE ought to be
> able to get you a copy of Spec95 or Spec2000, and there are a few
> good ones in cvs.
Of course I was running other benchmarks too. I don't have Spec available
yet (I will in few months),
but it speeded up the XaoS benchmarks for Hicolor as well as caused only
speedups in the benchmark suite from cvs.

I used byte benchmark only as an example how does the gains look like,
since this is still hard to believe for me.

Honza
> 
> 
> r~

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