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Jan Hubicka wrote:

> Hi
> I've found the byte benchmarks on my hdd, so here are the results:
> (-fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -mregparm=x)
> regparm                 0            1             2               3
> size                100kb        98kb          97kb           96kb
> integer             1.865239     1.867126      1.878186       1.892956
> fp                  1.421428     1.503115      1.493591       1.494438
>
> so here is approx 4% difference in executable size and similar difference
> in running speed.

I got similar results, the speed up isn't thanks to passing the parameters in the
registers, but instead thanks to the fact that using it you don't need to adjust the
stack! this saving is just because gcc doesn't need to emit the add $nn,%esp.

> So overall mregparm=3 seems to do best job
> There are slight regresions in some tests between regparm0 and regparm3.
> The largest slowdown is stringsort 2.06 -> 2.04 (about 1%, so it can be statistical
> error as well, as the slowdown between mregparm=1 to mregparm=3 in fp tests)

Yes, these tests have more than 1% of error.

> Largest speedups are in the fourier (1.62 -> 1.87 and huffman 1.86->2.04)

I'll apply it to these benchmarks, currently I tried only with the numeric sort.
BTW, try the memmove from djgpp v2.03 and you'll see a big speed up in the strings,
sort.

> so mregparm seems to be win.

Yes it left gcc 2.95 very close to MSVC 5.0.

SET

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