Fix a bug in hashtab.c and improve cse.c perfs
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Sun Oct 31 23:33:00 GMT 1999
In message < 19991030233307.A12193@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr >you write:
> I've been evaluating hash tables. I do indeed get the 10% speed increase
> in compiling gcc on a sparc, with a gcc 2.95.1.
>
> Jeff, maybe it would be a good idea to copy those hash tables to the
> 2.95 branch, if a 2.95.3 is on the table ? This looks to me as a change
> which should not break anything, is small and completely independent of
> the rest of the compiler, and is much too good to be ignored...
Sorry. No, this is not the kind of change we would want to make for gcc-2.95.3
if indeed such a release ever happens. Those releases are for *critical* bugs,
the new hash table code doesn't have a prayer of meeting that criteria. It
also likely fails the absolute safety criteria.
jeff
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