RSSA backend

Matthew Fluet fluet@CS.Cornell.EDU
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:59:27 -0500 (EST)


> One other strangeness, I ran all the benchmarks comparing the current
> stable MLton and the (just checked in) RSSA version, both using the C
> codegen.  Weirdly enough, the RSSA version was noticeable faster in
> most cases.  I have no explanation.  Here are the timings.

You mentioned earlier that there is a new pseudo-register allocator.  That
might be enough for gcc to a little more (or less) with the code.