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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:27:00 -0000
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
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> I don't see how making GCC faster on new machines wouldn't speed
> things up on slower machines.  Hmm...  Except for refraining from
> recomputing stuff over and over by setting aside some memory to hold
> the computed value.  This is fine for machines with lots of memory,

...and for machines with tiny caches, like the mentioned StrongARM.

Not all machines in the world have nicely balanced storage systems,
unfortunately.


Segher