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Re: Can we speed up the gcc_target structure?


kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

> I have to say that I was never happy with the move to the target structure,
> but couldn't completely put my finger on why.
>
> One reason I didn't like it was a feeling that it made references to these
> parameters lexically more complex and hence made the code harder to read, but
> that's not a strong reason.
>
> Howver, *this* is the reason I was trying to express: a significant fraction
> of these parameters are constants on most targets and we lose that with a
> move to the target structure.

Does your opinion change if the target parameters are properly
redesigned, as I suggested in another message to this thread?

zw


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