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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SUN procedure inlining(was i860 Dhrystones)
Message-ID: <16404@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 89 01:58:22 GMT
References: <39388@oliveb.olivetti.com> <15475@winchester.mips.COM> <95013@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <13641@jumbo.dec.com> <95215@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4614@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <97048@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <97048@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@sun.UUCP (chiba) writes:
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>For the record......
>
>-O4 has nothing to do with inlining (in any product currently released).

People maybe have been confusing this with MIPS -O4, which DOES do inlining.
Note that the MIPS Performance Briefs have consistently observed that
we weren't sure what the higher Sun optimizations did, but we knew they
didn't do inlining, and so cited those numbers.
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