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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Using __builtin_expect (likely/unlikely macros) |
Date: | Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:25:31 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 |
Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
I was told that e.g. "cold" attribute can sometimes produce unbearably slow code https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2019-01/msg00035.html
Although cold functions can be slow, it appears that overall it's a win for Emacs to mark _Noreturn error function declarations as cold: on my platform, 'make compile-always' ran about 1.3% faster. So I installed the attached patch into master. (Like Stefan, I'm wary of marking functions 'hot' so I didn't do that.)
This patch also adds a convenience macro AVOID for the now-common pattern '_Noreturn ATTRIBUTE_COLD void'.
0001-Mark-_Noreturn-error-functions-as-cold.txt
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