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Re: register hint usefulness
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Subject: Re: register hint usefulness
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:51:42 -0600
- cc: green at cygnus dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <10004231104.AA16300@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>you write:
> Stupid was recently removed from the compiler, however, because it was
> more trouble than it was worth. (Thank you rth!)
>
> However, the lack of the stupid register allocator is causing serious
> compile-time performance problems. Whether or not they can be resolved
> without putting it back in is an open question.
Examples please. We spent a goodly amount of time rooting out performance
issues when we removed the stupid allocator.
jeff