On 8/23/25 13:07, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
Great idea--though I wonder how much the work would multiply if we tried to
cater for the ever-evolving branch prediction, register renaming and stuff
that (as far as I know) all modern CPUs do.
...
So complicated only a human being can do it.
On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, 19:57 Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On 8/23/25 12:45, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
Agreed we should generally look at the bigger picture, but sometimes
seeing
something in a hot spot that stalls the instruction pipeline can be
worthwhile, and thinking down to CPU level occasionally can help us spot
them faster.
--
gil
