Re: Tyan S4880

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ron minnich  [031202 17:13]:
> On 1 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Ron one thing you did note was the changing of word accesses to byte
> > accesses.  With romcc that does not help in the case of register pressure.
>
> I would think it would hurt since x86 lets you use those little 
> sub-registers (puddle arithmetic), so using bigger registers reduces the 
> number of registers available.

Yes, being able to use this from romcc would severely lower register
pressure I assume. Neither romcc nor the code compiled with it takes
care of this at the moment though.

Stefan