Dear Richard and Dominique, > VLAs and malloc based arrays may behave differently with respect to alias > analysis (I'd have to look at some examples). All effects other than malloc
- hmmm, yes. I was forgetting what might happen with inlining. It's not evident, is it? > overhead I would attribute to that. That said, the general idea of the patch > is sound and I see nothing wrong with it. Both performance improvements > and regressions are worth looking at - they hint at possible improvements > in the middle-end parts of the compiler. I absolutely agree. I realise my input to this thread is possibly a bit negative but this is far from my reaction to the general idea and what is evidently within our reach. Cheers Paul
