Speculative prefetching: report
Jan Hubicka
jh@suse.cz
Fri Oct 15 22:28:00 GMT 2004
> > Before pushing it to mainline I would like see the
> >quadratic bottlenect of bsi_for_stmt resolved. I don't know where the
> >discussion surrounding Zdenek's patch went but I guess without that we
> >can fix it by keeping around BSIs instead of direct statement pointers
> >in the interface that is straightforward change.
>
> No, I tried that and could not get it to work. The problem was that
> once
> you've expanded one tree nearby stored bsi's become useless.
Hmm, now I remember Zdenek mentioning it...
OK, I guess it is best to keep the code as it is and wait if we get
better infrastructure for this later. I don't see how to easilly
reorganize the code to not depend on having pointers on several places
in insn stream...
Honza
>
> Besides, storing 3-word bsi's all over the place is not a good thing.
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