On 12/04/17 13:58, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> With -mcpu=generic the loop alignment is currently 4. All but one of the
> supported cores use 8 or higher. Since using 8 provides performance gains
> on several cores, it is best to use that by default. As discussed in [1],
> the jump alignment has no
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From: Wilco Dijkstra
Sent: 12 April 2017 13:58
To: GCC Patches
Cc: nd; James Greenhalgh; jim.wil...@linaro.org; Evandro Menezes;
andrew.pin...@cavium.com
Subject: [PATCH][AArch64] Update alignment for -mcpu=generic
With -mcpu=generic the loop alignment is currently 4. All but one
With -mcpu=generic the loop alignment is currently 4. All but one of the
supported cores use 8 or higher. Since using 8 provides performance gains
on several cores, it is best to use that by default. As discussed in [1],
the jump alignment has no effect on performance, yet has a relatively high
