Using a DFA for insn-recog.c

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Mon May 12 20:14:00 GMT 2008


Richard Sandiford wrote:

> I think Mark's point was that the size reductions are not in themselves
> particularly exciting.  The loadable size of an x86_64-linux-gnu cc1 is
> about 10M on my machine, so the patch represents a saving of about 1%.
> I can see that that's not much to write home about.  The saving on ARM
> (the biggest winner) is about 2.9%.

I hope I didn't come across as too negative.  I just felt ambivalent; it 
wasn't a big win, and it was a relatively big change, and so I didn't 
get too excited.  It's not like I would argue if someone else approved 
the change, if people feel it's the right direction.

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