RTX costs

Richard Kenner kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Tue Feb 9 14:24:00 GMT 2010


> After reading the internal docs about rtx_costs I am left wondering what 
> they exactly are estimating.
> - Are they estimating in the beginning of expand how many insns will be 
> generated from a particular insn until the assembler is generated?
> - or Are they estimating how many assembler instructions will be 
> generated for a particular insn?

The latter is what they're *supposed* to be measuring, but of course it's
an approximation.



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