[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] bitwise ops on booleans

[Sanjay Patel]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de
> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:51:38PM -0600, Sanjay Patel wrote:
> > Assuming the transform is correct, what is the recommended way to write
> > this in C/C++ to achieve the desired effect: we want both comparisons to
> be
> > evaluated (do *not* want short-circuiting)?
>
> Why do you want that?
>

For performance. The statement that materializing the condition bits is as
expensive as a branch is dependent on the arch, uarch, and data set. We're
currently only using arch for the DAG transform. So for example, x86
globally changes all of these while PPC does not. SimplifyCFG doesn't even
consider arch and does the inverse transform.

The programmer may have more knowledge about the predictability of a
specific branch and would like a way to specify that to the compiler.
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