On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, James E Wilson wrote: > Steven Bosscher wrote: >> OK, so I know this is not a popular subject, but can we *please* stop >> working on loop.c and focus on getting the new RTL and tree loop passes >> to do what we want? > I don't think anyone is objecting to this. [...] > I would however make a distinction here between new development work and > maintenance. It would be better if new development work happened in the new > loop optimizer. However, we still need to do maintenance work in loop.c.
...and since Canqun reported 2.5% improvement on SPEC CFP2000 on ia64 with his current patch, I really think we should consider it. We all know how hard it is to get this kind of improvement on any of the SPECs -- and in fact improving the current optimizers will make raise the bar for the new ones. ;-) Question is: who is going review/potentially approve this patch? Gerald
