i386 performance problem due to regmove.c change
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Sun Jun 28 00:51:00 GMT 1998
In message < 199806241723.NAA13994@jwlab.FEITH.COM >you write:
> I seem to be seeing around a 3 percent performance hit when
> running the crafty chess benchmark and the Brl-Cad raytracing
> benchmarks on an Intel Pentium II with:
>
> Thu Jun 11 14:50:02 1998 Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
>
> * regmove.c (regmove_optimize): If we can't replace the
> destination in an insn that sets the source, generate an explicit
> move of the source to the destination.
> (copy_src_to_dest): New function.
>
> installed. If I remove this patch then life gets better (not to
> mention faster :-).
I would be very curious to know if this performance regression went
away after my changes to recompute register set/reference counts.
jeff
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