For a different mailing list indeed; let me just point
out
that for certain important quite common cases it's an
~50%
overall speedup.
Hmm, what code was that? 'signed int does not wrap around' does not
seem to provide _that_ much info...
One of the recent huge threads on the GCC dev list has a
post that says *some other* compiler gets a result like
this from this optimisation (I don't have a link to the
exact post and I don't remember the details; perhaps it
was XLC?)
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough and you understood I meant
that GCC exploits this optimisation opportunity well
enough for such nice results already.
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So I searched for it anyway:
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-12/msg00768.html>
It looks like the result for *integer* code wasn't *all*
that dramatic a difference. Anyway, it's obvious that
the optimisation can certainly give nice results and it
wouldn't be a good idea for the Linux kernel to dismiss
it without really evaluating the impact first; and anyway,
this is for some future date, GCC-4.2 isn't here yet.
Segher
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