New register allocator branch created

[Daniel Berlin]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 dewar@gnat.com wrote:

> <<I've worked with the new allocator on both x86, and PowerPC, and while
> it is orders of magnitude better than the old allocator, at least on x86,
> >>
>
> Can you explain what it means to say that a register allocator is powers
> of ten better than another allocator. What metric are you using?

How often it spills and the number of registers needed.

--Dan