On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:11 AM, shmeel gutl
<shmeelg...@shmuelhome.mine.nu> wrote:
> While testing my implementation of passing arguments in registers, I noticed
> that gcc 4.7 creates instruction dependencies when it doesn't have to.
> Consider:
>
> int foo(int a1, int a2, int a3, int a4)
> {
> return a1|a2|a3|a4;
> }
>
> gcc, even with -O2 generated code that was equivalent to
>
> temp1 = a1 | a2;
> temp2 = temp1 | a3;
> temp3 = temp2 | a4;
>
> return temp3;
>
> This code must be executed serially.
>
> Could I create patterns, or enable optimizations that would cause the
> compiler to generate
>
> temp1 = a1 | a2;
> temp2 = a3 | a4;
> temp3 = temp1 | temp2;
>
> Thereby allowing the scheduler to compute temp1 and temp2 in parallel.
You can tune it with --param tree-reassoc-width=N, not sure if that
was implemented for 4.7 already.
Richard.
