[LLVMdev] [LLVM Dev] [Discussion] Function-based parallel LLVM backend code generation

[Wan, Xiaofei]

Yes, sometime it may affect code layout which may affect performance; theoretically it is better if we could generate totally identical code, including function order, meanwhile, it is easy to validate whether parallelism is correct, just compare the outputs simply

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From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Joshua Cranmer ??
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On 7/16/2013 9:51 PM, Wan, Xiaofei wrote:
> [Xiaofei] why? I don't understand it very well here, you mean it can 
> generate totally identical binaries as the original llc, including the 
> function order (function order may not affect code quality, but we 
> should make sure the output is same in each run)?

Per <http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/asplos09.pdf>, function order can affect performance by up to 15%.

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Joshua Cranmer
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