reg+reg addressing mode on SPARC
Joe Buck
jbuck@synopsys.COM
Fri Aug 10 18:07:00 GMT 2001
Dan Nicolaescu writes:
> Here is the result that I get for the code from the 2340 bug report
> using a version of gcc patched to have ADDRESS_COST 2 for the reg+reg
> addressing modes and 1 for all the other cases:
>
> ./a.out
> test absolute additions ratio with
> number time per second test0
>
> 0 0.31sec 161.29M 1.00
> 1 0.31sec 161.29M 1.00
[ all others are one as well ]
Cool.
Hmm. Seems the next step is to try your patch on other benchmarks, such
as Spec-[year of your choice]. If it looks good, then, well, since I
don't know that much about the backend, I hope that those who do will
seriously look at making this change.
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