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SubjectRe: [RFT][patch 17/18] sched: use jump labels to reduce overhead when bandwidth control is inactive
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On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 08:11 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 01:30 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > OK, so _WHY_ does that make a difference and will a next version of
> > gnu-binutils not mess that up?
>
> The Why is micro-architectual, and I can't answer that.
>
> But ld will never re-order the files as given on the command-line.
> There are too many functions and tables that are constructed
> piece-wise from input sections; re-ordering them would change
> the semantics of the program.

Right, so I was wondering about things like whole-program-optimization
passes at link time. Since I've no clue why the proposed patch does what
it does, its hard to say what invariant is needed to be kept.




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