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Re: A case that PRE optimization hurts performance


On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jiangning Liu <jiangning.liu@arm.com> wrote:
>> > * Without PRE,
>> >
>> > Path1:
>> > ? ? ? ?movl ? ?$2, %eax
>> > ? ? ? ?cmpl ? ?$1, %eax
>> > ? ? ? ?je ? ? ?.L3
>> >
>> > Path2:
>> > ? ? ? ?movb ? ?$3, %al
>> > ? ? ? ?cmpl ? ?$1, %eax
>> > ? ? ? ?je ? ? ?.L3
>> >
>> > Path3:
>> > ? ? ? ?cmpl ? ?$1, %eax
>> > ? ? ? ?jne ? ? .L14
>> >
>> > * With PRE,
>> >
>> > Path1:
>> > ? ? ? ?movl ? ?$1, %ebx
>> > ? ? ? ?movl ? ?$2, %eax
>> > ? ? ? ?testb ? %bl, %bl
>> > ? ? ? ?je ? ? ?.L3
>> >
>> > Path2:
>> > ? ? ? ?movl ? ?$1, %ebx
>> > ? ? ? ?movb ? ?$3, %al
>> > ? ? ? ?testb ? %bl, %bl
>> > ? ? ? ?je ? ? ?.L3
>> >
>> > Path3:
>> > ? ? ? ?cmpl ? ?$1, %eax
>> > ? ? ? ?setne ? %bl
>> > ? ? ? ?testb ? %bl, %bl
>> > ? ? ? ?jne ? ? .L14
>> >
>> > Do you have any more thoughts?
>>
>> It seems to me that with PRE all the testb %bl, %bl
>> should be evaluated at compile-time considering the
>> preceeding movl $1, %ebx. ?Am I missing something?
>>
>
> Yes. Can this be done by PRE or any other optimizations in middle end?

Hm, the paths as you quote them are obfuscated by missed jump-threading.
On the tree level we have

  # s_2 = PHI <2(5), 3(4), 2(6), s_25(7)>
  # prephitmp.6_1 = PHI <1(5), 1(4), 1(6), prephitmp.6_3(7)>
<L10>:
  t_14 = t_24 + 1;
  D.2729_6 = MEM[base: t_14, offset: 0B];
  D.2732_7 = D.2729_6 != 0;
  D.2734_9 = prephitmp.6_1 & D.2732_7;
  if (D.2734_9 != 0)

where we could thread the cases with prephitmp.6_1 == 1, ultimately
removing the & and forwarding the D.2729_6 != 0 test.  Which would
of course cause some code duplication.

Jeff, you recently looked at tree jump-threading, can you see if we
can improve things on this particular testcase?

Thanks,
Richard.

> Thanks,
> -Jiangning
>
>> Richard.
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