Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)

Johnny Tevessen (j.tevessen@gmx.net)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:10:08 +0100


Quoting Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com):

> egcs already can take limited advantage of profile data, for example,

The switches for re-using runtime gathered profiling data
in compilation are in gcc now for quite a while, IIRC. I'd
really like to see that working somehow with the Kernel
also. This is really a thing a compiler can always do better
than human assembler hackers.

(No, yes, I like assembler hackers. I really hope that not
too many people forget how to low-level code a processor
in future, since everything else makes users even more
dependant on the chip hardware manufacturers.)

ciao,
johnny

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