[fpc-devel] optimizing the peephole optimizer?

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 01/22/2014 11:25 PM, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 22.01.2014 02:17, schrieb Nikolay Nikolov:
>> On 01/21/2014 11:20 PM, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>>> It is still on my todo list though to update the peephole optimizer and
>>> make a common one for i386 and x86_64 ...
>> And don't forget i8086 :)
>>
> I think there is little to share that's why I didn't mention it :)
Well, x86 is x86 is x86. Most of the x86 code generator is already 
shared in x86/cgx86.pas and that code is common for i8086, i386 and 
x86_64. IMHO, most of the peephole optimizations can be shared across 
all x86. Only the 'lea'-related stuff wouldn't work on i8086 (because of 
the register restrictions of 16-bit references) and there are some 
optimizations, which are specific to i8086 (like converting certain 
sequences of movs to lds/les). Of course, I could be wrong, but that was 
my opinion from looking at popt386.pas. It just looked to me that most 
optimizations done there apply equally well to i8086 as well as x86_64 
and it was in my TODO list to eventually cleanup and unify the peephole 
optimizer across all x86 (or if that turns out to be impractical, at 
least write one for i8086).

Nikolay