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Re: Some optimization thoughts (and thanks!)
- To: At150bogomips at aol dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Some optimization thoughts (and thanks!)
- From: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:32:09 +0200
> * When branches are expensive, it might be reasonable to translate if
> statements with multiple conditions into merged condition and a single
> branch rather than multiple branches. E.g., "if ((A==N) && (B==M))"
> might be translated into "XOR Temp1 A N; XOR Temp2 B M; OR Temp1 Temp2
> Temp1; BNEZ Temp1 L3; #branch over conditional code" rather than "XOR
> Temp1 A N; BNEZ Temp1 L3; #branch over second condition test and
> conditional code\\ XOR Temp1 B M; BNEZ Temp1 L3;" Removing a branch
> might increase modality of the branch and decrease branch history
> table aliasing, improving branch prediction. Such prediction
> improvement might compensate for the overhead of performing both tests
> in all cases. (This is what happened in a test case using a pair of
> comparisons of a random number and a constant, at least performance
> improved on an x86-based system.)
I've implemented this last month so I will try to contribute that
once I find time to polish thinks and test the code.
Honza