On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Jack Howarth wrote: > Richard, > Will gcc 4.3.0's release be held up until all of the major > architectures have fully optimized cost models for vectorization? > I ask because as far as I can tell the powerpc cost model changes > haven't been submitted yet. It certainly would be nice if all > of the major targets could have -fvect-cost-model enabled by > default for -O3.
No, there was plenty of time to get the cost model in, and the experience will be not worse than with 4.2 as that didn't have a cost model. Sorry, Richard.