[llvm-dev] RFC: PGO Late instrumentation for LLVM

[Xinliang David Li via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Ivan Baev via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> It could be a bit confusing to have two ways for PGO instrumentation at
> the same time. If small functions like get/set are responsible for most of
> the current overhead, could we inline these in clang?
>
> What will be the replacement for Function entry counts under PGO late
> instrumentation: these are valuable for many inter-procedural
> profile-based optimizations?
>
>
Block counts (including entry count) can be fully reconstructed with late
instrumentation. No information is lost.

David




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