Kai Henningsen wrote:- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Berlin) wrote on 18.04.06 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This is in fact, not terribly surprising, since the algorithm used was the > > result of Sebastian and I sitting at my whiteboard for 30 minutes trying to > > figure out what we'd need to do to make swim happy :). > > > This would leave -ftree-loop-linear in 4.2, but make it not useful for > > increasing SPEC scores. > > So is this an object lesson for why optimizing for benchmarks is a bad > idea?
It certainly seems that way to me. Neil.