<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div>On Oct 23, 2011, at 1:11 AM, Chandler Carruth <<a href="mailto:chandlerc@google.com">chandlerc@google.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; ">I don't care much about how you layout the cold chains as long as they</span></div>
<div>are not interleaved with the rest of the code, thus breaking the</div><div>topological ordering and forcing extra branches. In practice, this</div><div>means they get their own little Siberia after the function return,</div>
<div>effectively splitting the function into two sections. However, the</div><div>notion of "coldness" is really relative to the current loop head.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've not really tried to ensure this happens correctly. Mostly, this is just forming hot-paths through the code when they are *really* hot. I'll work on better sectioning off the cold paths that are cut off in a followup patch.</div></blockquote><br><div></div><div>Once you move a block " out of line" it will naturally end up floating to the end of the function when you do a good job splicing the other warm chains. So I don't think it needs to be explicit in the design. The explicit decision is simply when to move a chain out of line ( no longer topplogical). </div><div><br></div><div>Depending on the algorithm you may need to do some work to ensure loops are followed by their "best" loop exit. </div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div></body></html>