http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44382
--- Comment #10 from William J. Schmidt <wschmidt at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-10-21 14:41:13 UTC --- One more data point. I repeated the experiment using -fsched-pressure. Although this reduced the degradations considerably, the overall results are equivocal. I see a few improvements and a few degradations in the 1-4% range, with the geometric means essentially unchanged. So even if -fsched-pressure were the default, there wouldn't be an overwhelming case for enabling this support on powerpc64.