[llvm-commits] [llvm] r151111 - /llvm/trunk/lib/CodeGen/RegAllocFast.cpp

Chad Rosier mcrosier at apple.com
Tue Feb 21 17:44:27 PST 2012


On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:

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> On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Chad Rosier <mcrosier at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:
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>>> Author: stoklund
>>> Date: Tue Feb 21 19:02:37 2012
>>> New Revision: 151111
>>> 
>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=151111&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> Use SparseSet for the RAFast live virtual register map.
>>> 
>>> This makes RAFast 4% faster, and it gets rid of the dodgy DenseMap
>>> iteration.
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>> Very nice!!  What exactly were you testing to get the 4% estimate?
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> I have a -O0 bitcode file for 464.h264ref / armv7. I ran llc -time-passes and checked the user time for the fast allocator.

Ah, I was just wondering if this was a single test case or something larger like an aggregate number for the test-suite.

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> Note that RAFast is only 7% of codegen time at -O0, so the overall impact on clang -O0 is probably in the noise.

So you're telling me RAFast is fast.  :)  Every little bit counts!

Thanks, Jakob.

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> /jakob
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