<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:24 AM aditya kumar <<a href="mailto:hiraditya@gmail.com">hiraditya@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>> Just chiming in about the outliner stuff. (In general, I think it's desirable to have multiple options for how early/late a pass runs.)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if MachineOutliner can be augmented to add MachineFunctionSplitter functionalities as well. If the analysis part of MachineOutliner can allow single basic block outlining with some cost models. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The MachineOutliner and MachineFunctionSplitter target orthogonal use cases. Namely, the MachineOutliner optimizes for binary size while the MachineFunctionSplitter optimizes for performance. Attempting to reconcile the differences to fully address the opportunity along both dimensions doesn't seem like a fruitful goal. Furthermore, the key to better performance is not only the timing of the MachineFunctionSplitter pass but also the extraction methodology, i.e. using basic block sections. Basic blocks sections is a nascent feature and needs more widespread use and rigorous testing before being incorporated with a mature, more widely used pass. Today, we only use basic block sections for x86 ELF targets.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There is an interesting follow on though -- can we use basicblock sections as the extraction methodology in MachineOutliner, thus lowering the overhead of outlining? This is something we can revisit once basic block sections is more mature.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Aditya Kumar<div>Compiler Engineer</div><div><a href="https://bitsimplify.com" target="_blank">https://bitsimplify.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div>
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