On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 16:19 -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> The whole point of the thread started with wanting to move the default
> 'disabled' branch further out-of-line. We could get there with better
> compiler support for the 'cold' label attribute. Thus, in theory the
> whole 2-byte jmp is just an intermediate step. (Yeah, I know that
> support doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon...)
>
Actually, Ideally, we would move the bulk of the tracing code out of
line, but we can have the jump to the tracing code still in line, and
the nop jump to it.
[ hot path]
jmp trace / nop
1:
[...]
trace:
jmp trace_main_code
jmp 1b
Then that jmp trace can still be a 2 byte op.
-- Steve
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