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From: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>,
	Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Subject: Re: Clustering switch cases
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinUUndLEh5exJs+0_b6ueSBoJLWwUh3zMssYVAd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009010034.18924.paul@codesourcery.com>

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> > In fact we might want to move switch optimization up to the tree level
>> > (just because it's way easier to deal with there).  Thus, lower switch
>> > to a mixture of binary tree & jump-tables (possibly using perfect
>> > hashing).
>>
>> Doing the optimisation at the tree-level was exactly my initial idea.
>> By splitting the switches at the tree-level, before expand_case, would
>> then allow for expand_case to transform it either to a jump table or
>> binary tree depending on the situation.
>
> I'd kinda hope that doing the optimization at the tree level means expand_case
> doesn't have to handle both types.  The tree code converts sparse case ranges
> to explicit conditionals (or a switch on a compact perfect hash), so anything
> left to RTL expansion must be a jump table.

Yes, that was my idea.

Richard.

> Paul
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-27 13:49 Paulo J. Matos
2010-08-27 15:03 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-08-27 15:09   ` Paulo J. Matos
2010-08-27 15:27   ` Richard Guenther
2010-08-28  0:21     ` Xinliang David Li
2010-08-28 11:08     ` Paulo J. Matos
2010-08-31 15:59       ` Rahul Kharche
     [not found]       ` <201009010034.18924.paul@codesourcery.com>
2010-09-01  8:39         ` Richard Guenther [this message]
2010-09-01  9:15           ` Paulo J. Matos
2010-09-01  9:33             ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-01 12:37               ` Paulo J. Matos
     [not found] ` <D84AB18A31AC674EBE9B5300634A800601BF0B0932@EXCHANGEVS.IceraSemi.local>
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTinFhrgJw3Wz8aLhBU6PMYpJzBFTRxLUH3eoz4M0@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <4D60B0700D1DB54A8C0C6E9BE691637008965A28@EXCHANGEVS.IceraSemi.local>
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTinkjc4Y9baHXXK7v3ibQNwMtwGhA_oGmaFbykkA@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-03 10:29         ` Rahul Kharche

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