Simple benchmarks with gcc-3_0-branch

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Fri Feb 16 18:58:00 GMT 2001


Toshi Morita <tm2@best.com> writes:

> IMHO GCC desperately needs the ability to estimate register pressure
> and a framework for "throttling back" the aggressiveness of optimizations
> which generate new pseudos and/or extend the lifeetimes of existing pseudos
> in regions of high register pressure.

... or the reverse:  The register allocator needs to be able to know
that some registers can be recomputed instead of spilled and restored.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>



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