[LLVMdev] Fast register allocation

[Jakob Stoklund Olesen]

On May 17, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

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> On May 17, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:
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>> As you may have noticed, I have been working on a fast register allocator in the last week. The new allocator is intended to replace the local allocator for debug builds.
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> This is great work Jakob!  What is required and when do you think you'll be killing off the local allocator?

I think we should switch clang -O0 to the fast allocator right away. It is the only way of smoking out the remaining bugs.

I am not sure if or when llvm-gcc wants to switch, but when there are no more clients in the tree, we can kill off the local allocator.

/jakob