Re: [gentoo-dev] -fbranch-probabilities optimisation

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 17 May 2003 18:47, Chris Davies wrote:
> * Paul de Vrieze (pauldv@gentoo.org) wrote:
> > If the profiles can be created correctly there should be nothing stopping
>
> The current release of gcc doesn't contain threadsafe profiling, and indeed
> may never do. The cfg branch, where this work is being carried out reports
> that merging threadsafe profiling with main is problematic, and the code
> may be dropped.
>
> Still, there a whole bunch of single thread programs that can benifit from
> this stuff, especially on architectures like x86 which have tiny numbers of
> registers.
>

Well, my condition was well chosen I guess. It's a pitty that it doesn't work.

Paul

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