[LLVMbugs] [Bug 675] mgrid suffering 70% performance hit against native

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http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=675

sabre at nondot.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
          Component|opt                         |Backend: PowerPC
            Product|tools                       |libraries
         Resolution|                            |FIXED
   Target Milestone|---                         |1.7
            Version|trunk                       |1.3



------- Additional Comments From sabre at nondot.org  2006-02-04 19:34 -------
After making codegen improvements and not getting better performance, Nate simg5'd the code.

It turns out not to be a codegen problem, but actually an alignment problem: the common block was 
aligned to a 4-byte boundary (not 8) causing every load in the hot loop to fault (which flushes the 
pipeline on the G5).  Fixed with this patch:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20060130/031641.html

We now equal GCC's performance on mgrid.  Thanks to Nate for doing the analysis to figure out what 
was going wrong!

-Chris



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