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@@ -6235,46 +6235,56 @@ This only makes sense when scheduling after register allocation, i.e.@: with
@item -fsched-group-heuristic
@opindex fsched-group-heuristic
-Enable the group heuristic in the scheduler. This is enabled by default
-when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns}
+Enable the group heuristic in the scheduler. This heuristic favors
+the instruction that belongs to a schedule group. This is enabled
+by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns}
or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or at @option{-O2} or higher.
@item -fsched-critical-path-heuristic
@opindex fsched-critical-path-heuristic
-Enable the critical-path heuristic in the scheduler. This is enabled
-by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns}
+Enable the critical-path heuristic in the scheduler. This heuristic favors
+instructions on the critical path. This is enabled by default when
+scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns}
or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or at @option{-O2} or higher.
@item -fsched-spec-insn-heuristic
@opindex fsched-spec-insn-heuristic
-Enable the speculative instruction heuristic in the scheduler. This is
-enabled by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with
-@option{-fschedule-insns} or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or
-at @option{-O2} or higher.
+Enable the speculative instruction heuristic in the scheduler. This
+heuristic favors speculative instructions with greater dependency weakness.
+This is enabled by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@:
+with @option{-fschedule-insns} or @option{-fschedule-insns2}
+or at @option{-O2} or higher.
@item -fsched-reg-pressure-heuristic
@opindex fsched-reg-pressure-heuristic
-Enable the register pressure heuristic in the scheduler. This only makes
-sense when scheduling before register allocation, i.e.@:
+Enable the register pressure heuristic in the scheduler. This heuristic
+favors the instruction with smaller contribution to register pressure.
+This only makes sense when scheduling before register allocation, i.e.@:
with @option{-fschedule-insns} or at @option{-O2} or higher.
@item -fsched-rank-heuristic
@opindex fsched-rank-heuristic
-Enable the rank heuristic in the scheduler. This is enabled by default
-when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns}
-or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or at @option{-O2} or higher.
+Enable the rank heuristic in the scheduler. This heuristic favors
+the instruction belonging to a basic block with greater size or frequency.
+This is enabled by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@:
+with @option{-fschedule-insns} or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or
+at @option{-O2} or higher.
@item -fsched-last-insn-heuristic
@opindex fsched-last-insn-heuristic
-Enable the last-instruction heuristic in the scheduler. This is enabled
-by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns}
-or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or at @option{-O2} or higher.
+Enable the last-instruction heuristic in the scheduler. This heuristic
+favors the instruction that is less dependent on the last instruction
+scheduled. This is enabled by default when scheduling is enabled,
+i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns} or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or
+at @option{-O2} or higher.
@item -fsched-dep-count-heuristic
@opindex fsched-dep-count-heuristic
-Enable the dependent-count heuristic in the scheduler. This is enabled
-by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@: with @option{-fschedule-insns}
-or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or at @option{-O2} or higher.
+Enable the dependent-count heuristic in the scheduler. This heuristic
+favors the instruction that has more instructions depending on it.
+This is enabled by default when scheduling is enabled, i.e.@:
+with @option{-fschedule-insns} or @option{-fschedule-insns2} or
+at @option{-O2} or higher.
@item -fsched2-use-traces
@opindex fsched2-use-traces