Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> writes: > pocma...@gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos) writes: > > For most processors it's not important to get all costs exactly correct. > The compiler uses the costs in a relatively brute force manner. If > there is only one way to do some operation, then its cost is irrelevant. > Costs are mainly important on processors like x86 which have several > different ways to implement the same operation.
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. It's much clearer now. -- PMatos
