* optimisation question
@ 2007-05-17 16:54 Riccardo Lucchese
2007-05-17 18:40 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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From: Riccardo Lucchese @ 2007-05-17 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
Hi!
I'm working on GTK code; let's say we have some code like:
widget->privData->color = ...;
widget->privData->l = ...;
widget->privData->w = ...;
widget->privData->foo = ...;
does gcc already optimise widget->privData saving its value one time and
than using it? or generated binary just does what is written(literally -
"reference per reference")?
Would it be better to do:
WidgetPrivData* priv = widget->privData;
priv->color = ...;
priv->l = ...;
priv->w = ...;
priv->foo = ...;
?
Thank you very much,
Riccardo
riccardo.lucchese@gmail.com
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* Re: optimisation question
2007-05-17 16:54 optimisation question Riccardo Lucchese
@ 2007-05-17 18:40 ` Ian Lance Taylor
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ian Lance Taylor @ 2007-05-17 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Riccardo Lucchese; +Cc: gcc-help
Riccardo Lucchese <riccardo.lucchese@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm working on GTK code; let's say we have some code like:
>
> widget->privData->color = ...;
> widget->privData->l = ...;
> widget->privData->w = ...;
> widget->privData->foo = ...;
>
> does gcc already optimise widget->privData saving its value one time and
> than using it? or generated binary just does what is written(literally -
> "reference per reference")?
It depends on the data types. If it is possible that the assignment
to, e.g., widget->privData->color could change widget->privData itself
(perhaps because widget->privData == widget), then gcc can not
optimize the following load of widget->privData.
> Would it be better to do:
> WidgetPrivData* priv = widget->privData;
> priv->color = ...;
> priv->l = ...;
> priv->w = ...;
> priv->foo = ...;
In some cases, yes.
Ian
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