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Subject: Re: merging for 3.4 (was Re: [Patch] Qualify min(), max() ...)
From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:39, Neil Booth wrote:
> Jan Hubicka wrote:-
> 
> > Compiler is getting slower in each release but that is mostly cumulative
> > result of adding new features current infrastructure can't accept
> > cheaply...
> 
> I hate this slowness.  There's no reason IMO that GCC couldn't be 4
> times faster than it is, without any PCH or anything.  A lot of the
> code we use is just awfully inefficient.  And people are working on
> more interesting things than fixing some of the real problems we have.
> 

Some of the advantages to working on the tree-ssa bits is that they will
(hopefully) enable us to do a better job of optimizing faster so that
the later rtl routines have less to work with and are faster as a
result.

-eric

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