On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:34:21AM -0700, Viral Shah wrote: > Hello list, > > Looking at the projects on gcc.gnu.org, one sees work > being done on a new graph coloring based register > allocator for gcc 3.1. I hear that it might even make > its way into 3.1..
No, it won't. It matured too late. > The gcc open projects page only says: > > New register allocator > > Daniel Berlin and Michael Matz are working on an implementation of > a graph-coloring register allocator. A branch is created in CVS > with the tag new-regalloc-branch. It is known to bootstrap under > x86-linux and ppc-linux. > > This could obviously result in great improvements for ppc. Has > anyone tried it, has any performance data etc ? > I want to ask the list before trying it out myself, if > I do get around to actually doing it ;-) You'll have to use a cvs snapshot from that particular branch. It won't be merged for another month at least. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
