Re: RFC: New diff-delta.c implementation
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- Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
- Date
- Apr 24, 2006, 18:27 UTC
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On Apr 24, 2006, at 11:57, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> As a compiler writer, I am more than aware of this. >> Your change results in a 70% slowdown on PowerPC. > > Huh!?
2.5s instead of 1.5s comparing gcc-2.95.1.tar against gcc-2.95.2.tar. Byte loads are relatively expensive on this platform. I'll put the word loads back in and make sure they don't slow things down on x86.
-Geert