[Pixman] [PATCH 05/12] ARMv6: Force fast paths to have fixed alignment to the BTAC

2014-03-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
From: Ben Avison Trying to produce repeatable, trustworthy profiling results from the cairo-perf-trace benchmark suite has proved tricky, especially when testing changes that have only a marginal (< ~5%) effect upon the runtime as a whole. One of the problems is that some traces appear to show s

[Pixman] [PATCH 05/12] ARMv6: Force fast paths to have fixed alignment to the BTAC

2013-03-04 Thread Ben Avison
Trying to produce repeatable, trustworthy profiling results from the cairo-perf-trace benchmark suite has proved tricky, especially when testing changes that have only a marginal (< ~5%) effect upon the runtime as a whole. One of the problems is that some traces appear to show statistically signif