From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17924 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2004 22:42:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 17895 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2004 22:42:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lon-mail-1.gradwell.net) (193.111.201.125) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2004 22:42:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 32915 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2004 22:42:25 -0000 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (postmaster%pop3.polyomino.org.uk@81.187.227.50) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with SMTP; 18 Jan 2004 22:42:25 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AiLce-0002ir-V1; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:24 +0000 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: Jan Hubicka cc: Chris Lattner , Richard Henderson , "Kaveh R. Ghazi" , ian@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Can we speed up the gcc_target structure? In-Reply-To: <20040118223317.GE11268@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Message-ID: References: <20040118223317.GE11268@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01208.txt.bz2 On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Jan Hubicka wrote: > I suppose this is mostly equivalent to what LLVM have except for the > fact that list of symbols with external linkage is boundled in the > source itself, instead of being in separate file. > Do you have any experience with the separate file having considerable > benefits? If you could generate the list from a GNU linker script, you could take advantage of such a script in any library hiding internal functions that way. The obvious example is glibc but I don't know to what extent the functions written in assembler would inhibit such optimisations. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk