On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:24:19AM -0800, Ken Rose wrote:
[...]
> I'm not familiar with the OCaml code generator, but gcc without 
> optimization produces very naive code.  Each source statement is 
> translated separately, and all variable values are read from & written 
> back to memory.  (Only changed values are written, obviously)  It 
> doesn't do any instruction scheduling beyond what the processor may 
> require for correctness.  It really doesn't do anything more 
> sophisticated than suppressing moves that have the same register as 
> source & destination.
[...]

There is a good reason that without optimisations
there will be done none.

1.: It's what it seems to be. And switching optimisation on then
    is also what it seems to be: optimized code...
    So, a chair is a chair and a table is a table and that's good. :)

2.: Optimisation must be switched off to be able to debug...
    ...so it's good that gcc has the capability to produce non-
    optimized code.... it's not stupid to produce naive code.
    It sometimes is very useful.

Ciao,
   Oliver