i386 CONST_COSTS take 2
Joern Rennecke
amylaar@redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 19:07:00 GMT 2001
> this patch sets costs to 0 instead of negative values.
> I've checked on compiling combine.c, that it basically just avoids
> extra register used to hold "funny" constants we used previously.
>
> Code size grows slightly (<1%), but I believe it to be win perofrmance wise.
The cost used to be zero before, and that caused cse to do massive constant
propagation. So where you said to put a 32 bit value into a variable and
use it tren times, gcc will replicate the value ten times into the insn
instead. If the processor its the memory wall due to instruction fetch
and/or i-cache pollution, that means it will go slower.
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