On Tuesday 21 January 2003 9:56 am, Xavier Leroy wrote:
[snip various optimisationsm, including:]
> I also played with a "-ffast-math" flag for ocamlopt, whereas some math
> functions (sin, cos, sqrt, log) are directly expanded into x86
> instructions.  With this, we get 85% of the performance of g++ -O3,
> which isn't bad, and 2/3 of the performance of g++ -O3 -ffast-math.
>
> At any rate, the changes above to the OCaml code generator need to be
> tested more before possible inclusion in the next release.  Never
> trust code that you wrote in an airplane, especially while fighting
> for the armrest with an elderly central European lady who doesn't
> understand any of the languages that you speak :-)

Would it be possible to try some of these optimisation patches, if you have 
them? (such as float storing, inlining, SSE2?) 

I would be particularly interested to see how you include it in the ocamlopt 
compiler code, which I'm trying to understand...

Incidentally, what's a good way to learn the layout and functioning of the 
asmcomp compiler? (docs?)

Thanks,
Daniel.
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