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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