gcc speedup patch
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Dec 8 00:02:00 GMT 1998
In message < r2emqi8j5r.fsf@happy.cygnus.com >you write:
> Hi,
>
> Is it ok to install the appended patch? It should speed up the
> compiler itself on platforms with stdio implementations which are by
> default thread safe (such as Linux).
>
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> 1998-12-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
>
> * configure.in: Test for availability of putc_unlocked, fputc_unlocked,
> and fputs_unlocked.
> * system.h: If the *_unlocked functions are available use them
> instead of the locked counterparts by defining macros.
> * config.in: Regenerated.
I've installed this patch. Though I am rather skeptical of any real
improvements we will see from such changes. The only time I/O from the
compiler is on the critical path as far as I know is when we're doing
debugging dumps like -dap.
jeff
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