> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:31 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:
> > Is it possible we might be able to make MOZ_LIKELY and MOZ_UNLIKELY
> > meaningful on Windows (they currently only do anything on gcc or
> > clang builds)?  If we did, might that get back some of the gain from
> > turning off PGO?

On Thursday 2013-01-31 13:59 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> MSVC supports __assume, which is similar but not quite the same.  I'm very
> skeptical that by simply using __assume we'll regain the benchmark hit
> resulting from turning PGO off.

I certainly wouldn't expect to regain anything close to the whole
benchmark hit, but I could imagine regaining 10% or 20% of it with
something similar (which Mike's post notes __assume isn't).

-David

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