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- From: daryl@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Daryl Odnert)
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:29:29 GMT
- Subject: Re: Code Repositioning on MIPS Systems?
- Message-ID: <32580131@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- According to the information I've been sent via e-mail, MIPS has a
- postprocessor tool called "cord" which can reposition the procedures
- within an executable file so that run time cache conflicts will
- be reduced. The positioning is guided by information in "feedback
- files" which are generated by the "prof" command with the -feedback
- option.
-
- Does anyone know of any existing tools or planned enhancements to cord
- that will reposition the basic blocks of code within procedures so that
- taken conditional branches are reduced? Is anyone aware of any tools
- or compilers that perform this optimization on ANY existing architecture?
-
- Daryl Odnert daryl@cup.hp.com
- Hewlett-Packard
- Cupertino, California
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