[LLVMdev] [LLVMDev] The Basic Register allocator

[Jeff Kunkel]

Let me rephrase my question. The live intervals have a weight
associated with them. What does this weight exactly represent?

Thanks
Jeff Kunkel

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Jeff Kunkel <jdkunk3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand the mechanics. I don't know why a lesser weight is better
> than a greater weight.
>
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> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen <stoklund at 2pi.dk> wrote:
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>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Jeff Kunkel wrote:
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>>> I was studying the basic register allocator, and I am wondering why
>>> "LessSpillWeightPriority" priority was used over the greater weight.
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>> Because the front of std::priority_queue is the largest element given the ordering.
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