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Re: suppress_checking
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: suppress_checking |
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Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:04:17 -0400 |
> We're interested in GCC, not particularly in "decent optimizing
> compilers". Does GCC in fact optimize these cases?
Certainly GCC would be the main one I'd care about performance-wise,
and as far as I'm concerned sets the standard for "decent optimizing
compilers", but I've heard people do sometimes use other compilers. :-)
Our priorities do not servo on what people use. Emacs is part of the
GNU system, so the GNU system is the platform that carries the most
weight for our decisions. Thus, if a certain choice is bad for use
with GCC and good for use with every other compiler, we won't do it.
That's the way every GNU package should be developed.
... Okay, I just ran a quick test on my Mac (powerpc, Apple-flavored
gcc 4.0.1). The disassembly of a test function that included "if
(STRINGP (s)) return SDATA (s);", where "s" was an argument to the
function, showed the test was performed once, and the "die" call
wasn't present at all.
That is good.
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