Last day of studying and not studying, hope everything will go well tomorrow. Zdenek has finished the merging of renumbering patches, so it is time to synchronize cfg branch and start merging of other patches to the mainline. I've sent another version of bb-reordering patch to Andreas, hope this time it will bring improvements. For CFG branch it certainly does. Otherwise not much time for fun because of lack of time today.
OK, some results from Andreas came. The 3rd liveness pass costs about 1% of compilation time and brings noticeable speedups to C++ code only (eon, stephanov) about 1%. We definitly need to replace heuiristics in GCC by proper analyzers, so perhaps we can make people to wait 1% longer, or we can speed up liveness. I've posted question about it. If converison adds about 3 points to specs, this is good comparisons to 2-3 points brought by double test pass. Lets re-measure it, it can be interesting to see whtehr bootstrap time changes. GCC has plenty of oppurtunities for double test converison. So for now I will study and see whether someone repsponds to the posts. Would be cool to measure behaviour on non-x86 platform. Need to set up something...
OK, lets see how I like the idea of keeping diary. Yesterday has passed by studying for exams, today I should as well, but again I am not :) I've looked at RTH's thread local implemetnation. It looks usefull to get lower overhead for Zdenek's thread safe profiling patch, but still the patch has large overhead (for mozilla that can be about 8MB per thread, nasty). Perhaps I can copy the data on demand, but that does increase the overhead. I will send email about that. RTH didn't reviewed the tracer patch yet, so I probably won't prepare new ones. Andreas will benchmark the third liveness pass. It is badly needed, but it will hurt performance, since our liveness pass is lame. Perhaps time to rewrite it properly using bitmaps and daniels dataflow routines.
Hmm, I should be preparing for finals, but I am not. Instead I am browsing web after a while and decided to create account...
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