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Re: [PATCH, 4.9/4.10] Profile based option tuning
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Pengfei Yuan <0xcoolypf at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:26:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, 4.9/4.10] Profile based option tuning
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Pengfei Yuan <0xcoolypf@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the experiment, about 60% (1019/1699) profile data files are empty
> (all counters are zero).
Well, but you are globally overriding options even for the parts with
profile. The whole point of profile-feedback is to get at the interesting
parts (those with non-zero counters).
What you say is that not enough parts of the compiler care for
the actual profiles and thus portions with all-zero counters are
treated as if they were hot? Then better fix that.
Richard.
> 2014-07-22 21:39 GMT+08:00 Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Pengfei Yuan <0xcoolypf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patch tunes optimization options based on profile data:
>>> * Disable PGO options if profile is not available or empty.
>>> * Optimize for size if profile is available but empty.
>>
>> Err ... these don't seem interesting cases to "optimize" for?
>>
>> Richard.