On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 13:14 +0200, Sebastian Pop wrote: > Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > Sebastian, I really think you are worrying too much. > > right. > > > It's pretty rare that it will take going all the way to omega to be able > > to disambiguate two dependences. > > > > for dependence tests we exercise only a limited part of omega, but now > suppose that we'll use omega for other purposes, for example cache > miss equations, Most cache miss equations are using distance numbers, which we don't always need to go all the way to omega to get.
> scheduling, Dependence again :) > regalloc, Dependence again :) > etc. One of these users will > sooner or later end by triggering the exponential bullet. Only if you use such a big hammer for every small nail :)
