[LLVMdev] JIT Optimization Levels?
Evan Cheng
evan.cheng at apple.com
Sun Mar 29 19:26:37 PDT 2009
On Mar 29, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Nyx wrote:
>
> I was simply surprised because some C++ code I implemented/
> translated into
> LLVM IR ran significantly slower in the JIT than the C++ version.
> The code
> in question was mean to implement the "plus" operator in my scripting
> language, and had different behaviors depending on the type of the
> objects
> being added. I expected it to run faster as I was eliminating a
> call to a
> C++ function by generating the LLVM IR for what I wanted to do
> directly,
> essentially inlining the code for the "plus" operator into the code
> I was
> generating/JITing.
You have to profile it (or at least look at generated assembly code).
Assuming all else being done correctly, the question is then whether
the cost of JITing is too high for the type of code you are running.
Evan
>
>
>
> Evan Cheng-2 wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Nyx wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to control how optimized the x86 code generated by
>>> the JIT
>>> is? I mean the actual x86 code, not the llvm IR (I know about those
>>> optimization passes). I would like to make it as optimized as
>>> reasonably
>>> possible.
>>
>> Then the default is what you want. By default, all the codegen
>> optimizations are being run.
>>
>> Evan
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time,
>>>
>>> - Maxime
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