On 05/23/2013 06:29 AM, Bill Schmidt wrote:
Sandra and David, The array-alignment patch is performance-neutral with respect to CPU2006. All variations were in the noise range.
Well, that settles it; I don't see any reason to pursue the patch any further if it's not a performance win after all. It probably helped on some specific program or benchmark our original customer was interested in but that was in an older version of GCC, etc.
Bill, thanks very much for helping with this. -Sandra
