Re:Understanding CPU port contention
by BeeOnRope on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:02AM
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Compilers are rarely going to transform the 1000/1000 example into the 10/10 one, even if they were smarter.
Often such a transformation is simply impossible: the effect of interleaving the instructions may be different than what the source dictates.
Also the 1000/1000 example probably doesn't arise as a long stream of explicit instructions: it is probably just a short loop with 1000 iterations! That makes it even less likely that the compiler will simply start interleaving various instructions following the loop into the loop body somehow.
Often such a transformation is simply impossible: the effect of interleaving the instructions may be different than what the source dictates.
Also the 1000/1000 example probably doesn't arise as a long stream of explicit instructions: it is probably just a short loop with 1000 iterations! That makes it even less likely that the compiler will simply start interleaving various instructions following the loop into the loop body somehow.