Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-14 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W Gerald Hicks) writes: > I don't have a shiny new K7 yet, where I might expect the haifa > build to make more of a difference than my crusty old Pentium... Processors with out-of-order execution benefit *less* from scheduling than non-OOO superscalar processors. To Unsubsc

Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-14 Thread W Gerald Hicks
> Out of curiosity, were the benchmarks done with any of the Haifa > command-line-options, notably -fsched-interblock, -fsched-spec, > -fsched-spec-load, and -fbranch-count-reg ? > (toplev.c, grep for '#ifdef HAIFA', and read the comments > scattered elsewhere (haifa-sched.c)) Not yet, but thank

Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-14 Thread smd
Out of curiosity, were the benchmarks done with any of the Haifa command-line-options, notably -fsched-interblock, -fsched-spec, -fsched-spec-load, and -fbranch-count-reg ? (toplev.c, grep for '#ifdef HAIFA', and read the comments scattered elsewhere (haifa-sched.c)) Sean. To Unsubscri

Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-14 Thread Martin Heller
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Narvi wrote: [snip] > According to my vague recollectiosn from the early times of egcs when > faifa was integrated, etc. part of the problem is that to have haifa be > really effective, all old kluges need be removed... > > Something that back then happened/had happened onl

Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-14 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to W Gerald Hicks: > > Just curious what effect using the --enable-haifa flag for building > > gcc-2.95.1/x86 would have so I did a comparison using the Dhrystone > > benchmark from /usr/ports/benchmarks/bytebench. &

Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-13 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to W Gerald Hicks: > Just curious what effect using the --enable-haifa flag for building > gcc-2.95.1/x86 would have so I did a comparison using the Dhrystone > benchmark from /usr/ports/benchmarks/bytebench. I think the Haifa scheduler is only really effective on pure RISC p

Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > Just curious what effect using the --enable-haifa flag for building > gcc-2.95.1/x86 would have so I did a comparison using the Dhrystone > benchmark from /usr/ports/benchmarks/bytebench. This seems marginal, in other words. How did the res

--enable-haifa

1999-10-12 Thread W Gerald Hicks
Just curious what effect using the --enable-haifa flag for building gcc-2.95.1/x86 would have so I did a comparison using the Dhrystone benchmark from /usr/ports/benchmarks/bytebench. This was run on a Ziatech 200Mhz Pentium cPCI system. I don't know if this is really worth further testin