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Subject: Re: Some functions are not inlined by gcc 3.2, resulting code is
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From: Jussi Laako <jussi.laako@kolumbus.fi>
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On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 02:17, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> Alignment does not eliminate jump. It only moves jump target to 16 byte
> boundary.=20

Exactly. And P4 cache is _very_ bad at anything not 16-byte aligned. The
speed penalty is big. This seems to be problem only with Intel CPU's, no
such large effects on AMD ones.

> This _probably_ makes execution slightly faster but on average
> it costs you 7,5 bytes. This price is too high when you take into account
> L1 instruction cache wastage and current bus/core clock ratios.

7.5 bytes is not much compared to possibility of trashed cache or
pipeline flush.
Do you have execution time numbers of jump to 16-byte aligned address vs
unaligned address?


	- Jussi Laako

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