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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/10] target/i386: optimize indirect branches w


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/10] target/i386: optimize indirect branches with TCG's jr op
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:43:45 +0800
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On 12/04/2017 09:17, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> 
> The fact that NBench is not very sensitive to changes here is a
> little surprising, especially given the significant improvements for
> ARM shown in the previous commit. I wonder whether the compiler is doing
> a better job compiling the x86_64 version (I'm using gcc 5.4.0), or I'm simply
> missing some i386 instructions to which the jr optimization should
> be applied.

Maybe it is "ret"?  That would be a straightforward "bx lr" on ARM, but
it is missing in your i386 patch.

Paolo



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