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Re:Someone’s Been Messing with My Subnormals by jeffbee on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:12PM (#32742613)
Tune for native sometimes makes a difference but not always. Targeting a platform that is known to have AVX2, instead of detecting AVX2 at runtime and bouncing through the PLT, can make a large difference. PGO remains the largest opportunity.
Re:Someone’s Been Messing with My Subnormals by account42 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:54AM (#32748950)
PGO is not something Gentoo does (outside a few packages like Firefox that have it in their build system) because the profiling cannot be done automatically for arbitrary packages.