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Re: [patches] Re: i386 multiple-jumps fp comparisons


> After block reordering you have
> 
> 	if (ordered) goto L3;		// prob 10%
>       L2:
> 	block_a;
>       target:
> 	block_b;
> 	...
>       L3:
> 	if (ge) goto L2;		// prob 90%
> 	goto target;
> 
> Surely you can't do any better than that.
I was trying to supply -freorder-blocks to get such sequence, but somehow
it don't work.  I will try to figure out why.
(the opcode heruisitics should predict the branches properly, so something
is wrong elsewhere.)

Honza
> 
> 
> 
> r~

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