Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 04:12:16 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: likely/unlikely |
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Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > likely/unlikely set the branch prediction values to 99% or 1% > > respectively. If this causes the code generated to perform less > > optimally than without, I'm sure the gcc guys would be -very- interested > > to hear that... > > On some ppc64 the branch prediction is quite good and static prediction > will override the dynamic prediction. I think we avoid predicting a > branch unless we are quite sure (95%/5%). > > So if likely/unlikely is overused (on more marginal conditionals) then > it could be a performance loss.
oh agreed... but marginal conditionals should not be getting likely()/unlikely() as you are then lying to the compiler about the true branch predictability...
Jeff
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