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[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19980218020930.56829@cerebro.laendle >you write:
  > 
  > this is a recent post by linus torvalds, in a discussion about
  > bad long long performance in gcc. (part of linus wishlist):
We need to be *very* careful about trying to optimize long long
stuff on the x86.  The register pressure & reloading issues are
extremely tricky.

In fact, I would recommend that we start thinking about fixing
register allocators  & reload before we start thinking about
optimizing long long stuff.

jeff