Evandro Menezes wrote: > I assume that you mean that such improvements are true for > -mcpu=generic, yes? On which target, A53 or A57 or other?
It's true for any CPU setting. The SPEC results are for Cortex-A57 however I wrote a microbenchmark that shows improvements on all targets I have access to. The GCC switch expansion is awful, so even with a good indirect predictor it is better to use conditional branches. Wilco
