Performance comparison

[Jeff Sturm]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Andrew Haley wrote:
> I'm sure that's the main reason.  Once we get global inlining working
> I expect to see a decent improvement.

Provided that increased register pressure doesn't ruin the benefits of
inlining.  The new register allocator may help, too.

It'd be nice to have a study on the effects of inlining real-world code
with GCC on multiple targets.  I haven't seen any, and chances are any
that already exist are obsolete anyway.  Meanwhile I've noticed a lot more
hand-waving arguments than real numbers.

Jeff