Loop optimizer issues

Jim Wilson wilson@tuliptree.org
Tue Aug 26 02:46:00 GMT 2003


David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	What is the status of merging these optimizations into GCC 3.4?
> GCC 3.4 currently exhibits a noticeable performance regression.  I want to
> make sure the regression and the proposed patches are noticed now so that
> this is not a surprise later as we get closer to the release.

If these are regressions resulting from my loop/alias bug fixes, then it 
might be a better strategy to improve the handling of alias info inside 
loop, rather than add new loop optimizations, or rewrite existing ones.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com



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