Stack ILP issues (Was: Slow recursive functions

[Mladen Adamovic]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:09:38 +0100, Ian Rogers wrote
> The best place to read up on this are the Intel and AMD optimization 
> guides. 

Not really, but I found that stack instructions exploit ILP in Hammer :
http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2001_10_02_Hammer_microarchitecture.html

If I understand clearly Hammer (Athlon64, AFFAIK) calculate ESP register in
advance to exploit ILP for stack operations.


Mladen Adamovic
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