Re: Looking for backend timing info

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Sun, 6 Jun 1993 20:22:41 GMT

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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Keywords: performance, bibliography
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
References: 93-06-010 93-06-014
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 20:22:41 GMT

mnelson@bifur.cis.udel.edu (Mark Nelson) writes:
>I'm looking for hard data on the time costs of analysis and optimization
>in compiler back-ends. Has anyone instrumented a compiler back-end to
>extract this sort of information?


Fraser and Henry report their DAG IR-driven locally-optimal code
generator costs a few hundred instructions per generated VAX assembly
instruction.


%A Chris W. Fraser
%A Robert R. Henry
%T Hard-Coding Bottom-Up Code Generation Tables to Save Time and Space
%J Software \- Practice and Experience
%V 21
%N 1
%D January 1991
%P 1-12


;-D oN ( Talkin' bout my generation... ) Pardo


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