Slowdowns in code generated by GCC>=3.3

[Ranjit Mathew]

Remko Troncon wrote:
> 
> I am a developer of a bytecode emulator for the Prolog language. With the
> release of GCC-3.3, our emulator was slowed down by a factor of 3 on x86 with
> -O3 turned on (we didn't measure other platforms; the optimization flag doesn't
> seem to matter). We were hoping this was a temporary issue, but the situation
> didn't improve in any of the newer releases :(

FWIW, there have been other grumblings about newer GCC
versions slowing down interpreter-like code:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.vm.sablevm.devel/1247

Ranjit.

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