Re: your recent eval.d changes

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Sam wrote:
> > So it is not related. Since we have FAST_SP turned off for gcc >= 3.1
> > since 2002-05-28, it must be a bug introduced by "-O2
> > -fomit-frame-pointer" in other places than this one.
>
> in that case, how do we know that -fomit-frame-pointer does not give us
> any benefit?

Good point. We should have measured with gcc-2.95.3, not gcc-3.2 or gcc-3.3.
But anyway, the rest of clisp also constributes to the timings. And it didn't
make any difference.

> maybe if FAST_SP were enabled, -fomit-frame-pointer would have made a
> difference?

That's hypothetic. With today's GCC, FAST_SP and -fomit-frame-pointer are
incompatible.

Bruno