From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>, dvorak <dvorak@xs4all.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Syscall changes registers beyond %eax, on linux-i386
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 01:33:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020922013346.A39@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020919154730.16046A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:53:24PM -0400
Hi!
> It's a problem with a 'general purpose' compiler that wants to
> be "all things" to all people. If somebody made a gcc-compatible
> compiler, tuned to the ix86 characteristics, I think we could
> cut the extra instructions by at least 1/2, maybe more.
Remember pgcc?
And btw cutting instructions by 1/2might look nice but unless you can
keep it as fast as it was, its useless.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-22 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-19 17:44 Petr Vandrovec
2002-09-19 18:04 ` Brian Gerst
2002-09-19 18:30 ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-19 18:51 ` Brian Gerst
2002-09-19 18:57 ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-19 19:40 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-19 19:41 ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-19 19:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-19 22:46 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-09-20 12:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-20 17:16 ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-22 1:33 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-09-23 13:11 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-23 18:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-19 19:18 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-19 19:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-19 20:25 ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-09-20 8:32 ` george anzinger
2002-09-21 6:19 ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-21 8:09 ` george anzinger
2002-09-21 15:08 ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-24 18:02 ` CHECKER bate: " george anzinger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-19 14:45 dvorak
2002-09-19 16:11 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-19 17:09 ` Brian Gerst
2002-09-19 17:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-19 17:51 ` Brian Gerst
2002-09-19 18:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-19 17:59 ` dvorak
2002-09-19 18:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
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