tbp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 3/12/06, Steven Bosscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > Yes, why is the benchmark not valid? | > | > It is valid. We should understand why this behavior has changed so drastically. | This benchmark maybe useless, it still exposes a weakness of gcc4. At | least it's not news to me: | http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21195 | | So that PR has been closed when gcc-devs marked all those intrinsics | as force_inline. That's also the kludge i use with my code. The real | problem is once you start marking some functions as force_inline, you | upset the inlining heuristic even more creating even more silly | inlining misses, rince, repeat. | At the end of the day, everything is marked either force_inline or | noinline and you'd be better off without a heuristic at all.
so force_inline is like a virus :-) -- Gaby
