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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114593: * lisp.h (eassert): Don't use	'assume'.
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:00:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iox4pa0w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52579C68.1040904@cs.ucla.edu>

> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:36:24 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > By merging eassert_and_assume with eassert, then removing the assume from eassert, you've essentially removed calls to assume and pessimized the code.
> 
> OK, in trunk bzr 114622 I restored eassert_and_assume
> (under the shorter name 'eassume'), but can you measure
> how much performance you're gaining with this change?
> The eassume macro is tricky to use (as it sometimes makes
> performance worse) so I'd rather omit it if any
> performance gains are insignificant.

I'm also curious as to why this is needed.  Again, 'assume' is an
optimization device, and 'eassert' is not normally compiled in
optimized builds.  What are the use cases for this?



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-11  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1VTxwB-0001h8-7E@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2013-10-11  2:31 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114593: * lisp.h (eassert): Don't use 'assume' Daniel Colascione
2013-10-11  6:36   ` Paul Eggert
2013-10-11  7:00     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-11  7:41       ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-11  8:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-11  8:19           ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-11  8:59             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-11  9:10               ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-11 10:27                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-11 12:42                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-11 15:24                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-11  9:06             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-11  9:18               ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-11  9:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-11  9:55                   ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-11 10:31                     ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-10-11 15:22                       ` Paul Eggert
2013-10-11 15:41                         ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-12  7:37                           ` Paul Eggert
2013-10-11 11:19                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-11 15:57                       ` Daniel Colascione

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