From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:27:19 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: New diff-delta.c implementation
Message-ID: <EC4542D3-2C18-44D4-8FDB-86918054CA9B@adacore.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604241123490.18520@localhost.localdomain>

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