> Some targets have -mbranch-cost to allow overriding the default costing.
>   visium has a branch cost of 10!

Yeah, the GR5 variant is pipelined but has no branch prediction; moreover 
there is an additional adverse effect coming for the instructions bus...

>   Several ports have a cost of 6 either unconditionally or when the branch
>   is not well predicted.

9 for UltraSPARC3, although this should probably be lowered if predictable_p.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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