------- Additional Comments From joseph at codesourcery dot com  2005-06-10 
14:28 -------
Subject: Re:  GCC should combine adjacent stdio
 calls

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, ghazi at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> I have the cpu time, but it seems premature.  Your patch as it stands only 
> optimizes two adjacent printf calls.  Not printf with putc or puts and none 
> of 
> the f* variants, right?  And GCC uses mostly the f* variants.  This is like 
> asking for tree-ssa benchmarks when the framework was in but before any new 
> passes were written.

Since putc and puts are typically faster than printf (not needing to parse 
the input) and we optimize printf of constants into them, it's not clear 
that merging printf with such functions would be an improvement either.



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