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Re: [PATCH] Hoist adjacent pointer loads

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:16 PM, William J. Schmidt
<wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 12:11 -0500, William J. Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I found this parameter that seems to correspond to well-predicted
>> conditional jumps:
>>
>> /* When branch is predicted to be taken with probability lower than this
>> ? ?threshold (in percent), then it is considered well predictable. */
>> DEFPARAM (PARAM_PREDICTABLE_BRANCH_OUTCOME,
>> ? ? ? ? "predictable-branch-outcome",
>> ? ? ? ? "Maximal estimated outcome of branch considered predictable",
>> ? ? ? ? 2, 0, 50)
>>
> ...which has an interface predictable_edge_p () in predict.c, so that's
> what I'll use.

Sounds good.

Thanks,
Richard.

> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
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