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reply Russel Winder <russel winder.org.uk> writes:
I am getting hints that using --inline in some small (well trivial
really) compute intensive codes actually makes performance worse by a
few percent.  Nothing experimental / statistically significant, just
some anecdotal observations. Is this as it might be expected or is it
something that needs more investigation?

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Apr 15 2012
next sibling parent "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Russel Winder:

 I am getting hints that using --inline in some small (well 
 trivial
 really) compute intensive codes actually makes performance 
 worse by a
 few percent.  Nothing experimental / statistically significant, 
 just
 some anecdotal observations. Is this as it might be expected or 
 is it
 something that needs more investigation?
Inlining (like most other things in life) is a matter of tradeoffs. Inlining removes the costs of function calls, allows some more small local optimizations, and increases code locality in the code cache, but it also increases code size and this sometimes increases cache misses. Finding the right amount of inlining to use is hard. The inliner works heuristically (and often only on the base of information known statically, unless you are using a JIT or profile-driven optimization) to balance such tradeoffs, trying to find something good enough on average. But sometimes its choice is suboptimal. GCC offers user-written compiler hints to forbid the inlining of a specific function, or to almost-force the inlining of the function. Bye, bearophile
Apr 15 2012
prev sibling parent reply "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
For interested people, there is a thread in D.learn that shows a 
missed inlining in DMD:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/alnkynbdyddtrwpmfngr forum.dlang.org

(After that manual inlining the D code is slower still than the 
same C++ code).

I think  forceinline is not necessary here, a more aggressive 
inliner seems enough.

Bye,
bearophile
Apr 16 2012
parent Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:
On 04/16/2012 03:33 PM, bearophile wrote:
 For interested people, there is a thread in D.learn that shows a missed
 inlining in DMD:
 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/alnkynbdyddtrwpmfngr forum.dlang.org

 (After that manual inlining the D code is slower still than the same C++
 code).
I think there was an alternative D translation that was comparatively fast?
 I think  forceinline is not necessary here, a more aggressive inliner
 seems enough.

 Bye,
 bearophile
Apr 16 2012