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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:30:53 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bad performance on alpha? (make buildworld)
Message-ID:  <20040225193053.GL7567@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <403C3053.5030204@mac.com>
References:  <20040223192103.59ad7b69.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20040224202652.GA13675@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> <5410C982-6730-11D8-8D4C-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040225025953.GH10121@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <403C3053.5030204@mac.com>

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:19:15AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >Maybe in theory, but not necessarily in practice.
> 
> It's been a few years since I'd written a compiler, but my viewpoint isn't 
> based entirely on theory.
...
> Your technical description is accurate, but the points you are making here 
> seem to support my argument, rather than contradict what I said.  :-)

You're assuming you're writing a compiler targeting _1_ specific
architecture.  It doesn't matter what is possible, what matters is what
GCC does.  Please go analysis GCC and report the deficiencies.  I
personally would love to know what they are, and how to make GCC do
better on non-x86 platforms.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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