<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:41 PM Maksim Panchenko via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">*Pessimization/overhead for stack unwinding used by system-wide profilers and<br>
for exception handling*<br>
<br>
Larger CFI programs put an extra burden on unwinding at runtime as more CFI<br>
(and thus native) instructions have to be executed. This will cause more<br>
overhead for any profiler that records stack traces, and, as you correctly note<br>
in the proposal, for any program that heavily uses exceptions.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>The number of CFI instructions that have to be executed when unwinding any given stack stays the same. The CFI instructions for a function have to be duplicated in every basic block section, but when performing unwinding only one such a set is executed -- the copy for the current basic block. However, this copy contains precisely the same CFI instructions as the ones that would have to be executed if there were no basic block sections.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Krzysztof Pszeniczny</div></div></div>