[Bug gcov/profile/24487] [3.4/4.0/4.1 Regression] Basic block frequencies inaccurate

["hubicka at ucw dot cz" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #4 from hubicka at ucw dot cz  2005-10-28 21:29 -------
Subject: Re: [Bug gcov/profile/24487] [3.4/4.0/4.1 Regression] Basic block
frequencies inaccurate

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> ------- Comment #3 from dje at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-10-28 17:30 -------
> The misprediction causes (or at least contributes to) compute_alignments in
> final.c not aligning the critical loop in longest_match.  The recent changes to
> bb-reorder.c moved the start of the loop from an ideal alignment to the worst
> alignment, causing a 8-10% performance drop due to instruction fetch problems. 
> Without the explicit alignment directives omitted because of misprediction, the
> alignment of the loop is random.

I see, Athlon is less sensitive to alignment that might explain it.  I
will try to fix my SPEC testing setup on PPC after SVN revamp and
benchmark it there too...

Honza

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