On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:34:14PM -0800, Jean Christophe Beyler wrote: > I'm currently working on removing the constant folding and constant > propagation because, on the architecture I'm working on, it is highly > costly to move a constant into a register if the number is big (we can > say over 16 bits).
But in practice most constants that cprop deals with are values like -1, 0, 1, or 2. Wouldn't it be better to be able to constrain cprop based on the values of the constants, than to eliminate it altogether?