[RFC] Don't schedule prefetch INSNs
Zdenek Dvorak
rakdver@kam.mff.cuni.cz
Wed May 20 16:49:00 GMT 2009
Hi,
> >Do you mean this within the same basic block? Prefetching something that
> >will
> >be accessed in the same basic block is probably not very profitable (unless
> >the block is huge).
>
> It will be worthwhile if the basic block is a loop body. It might make
> sense to prefetch something used in the next loop iteration. Actually
> that's what I am trying to do for memcpys.
in that case, the placement of the prefetch inside the loop body is
more or less irrelevant, no?
Zdenek
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