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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:53:06 +0000
Subject: Re: optimize __gp location
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>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:51:17 +0100, Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de> said:

  Christian> Did you have benchmarks? Or at least a comparison of the
  Christian> resulting code size. The code size should shrink when
  Christian> more items can be addressed directly. Furthermore the
  Christian> code size should be a good indicator for the performance
  Christian> gain you could achive.

I'm curious about this too.  Ken, do you have a real-world benchmark
where improved GP-relative addressability actually made a significant
difference?

	--david