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Re: Speculative prefetching: report
Hello,
> >>2. In the profile-generation phase, there is a huge code bloat
> >>resutling from
> >>instrumenting all the loads and stores. This badly stresses the rest
> >>of the BE,
> >>causing out-of-memory ICEs or unacceptably slow compile times (hours)
> >>on
> >>several SPECmarks. (With IMA to be sure.)
> >
> >this is bad. I guess it should be possible to prune the references we
> >try to prefetch somehow.
>
> Implementing the instrumentation as function calls rather than
> inline code might help.
it is not possible to insert new function calls at rtl level,
unfortunately.
Zdenek