Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:30:28 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/13] jump label v9: x86 support |
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> What you are arguing for is a 'bloaty code generator by default' model and > that model sucks.
I am arguing for a "non sucky code by default" model.
It is widely known that "sucky code by default" sucks already, that is why the big distros made their choice.
Anyways luckily the default is all config options so we don't need to agree on this (and the best choice likely varies by workload too)
> Possibly, but not without substantiating the rather vague statements you have > made so far.
Yes, more data with recent builds is needed for concrete changes.
BTW afaik the "icache over everything" model was never really substantiated by all that much data either, just somehow it became dogma.
I must say I was a bit burned by doing annotations -- i added unlikely() originally and as far as I can see most unlikely()s are quite useless today because they do nothing the compiler doesn't do already so I would prefer to not repeat that.
So my personal preference is actually less annotations over more.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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