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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:07:42 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_malloc.c md5c.c subr_autoconf.c subr_mbuf.c subr_prf.c tty_subr.c vfs_cluster.c vfs_subr.c
Message-ID:  <p05210685bb438fb2dcbb@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20030723003212.1606C2A8B2@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <20030723003212.1606C2A8B2@canning.wemm.org>

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At 5:32 PM -0700 7/22/03, Peter Wemm wrote:
>
>Take the i386 interrupt vector code.  Thats an example where
>it is massively inlined.  Having a non-inlined function that
>does all the calculations and bit shifting is much smaller
>in code size, but slower at runtime.

If I understand this discussion correctly, then the previous
version of gcc (in freebsd-current) was NOT inlining these
sections event though we thought it was.  Might we expect some
performance improvements now that we know to force gcc to
inline the functions?

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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