Support for Conditional Execution in Selective Scheduling
Conditional execution is a hardware feature available in some CPUs that allows assigning instruction a predicate so that instruction will only execute if the predicate is true. In this paper we propose a method for supporting conditional execution in the instruction scheduler and discuss the advanta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Труды Института системного программирования РАН |
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| Online Access: | https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1031 |
| Summary: | Conditional execution is a hardware feature available in some CPUs that allows assigning instruction a predicate so that instruction will only execute if the predicate is true. In this paper we propose a method for supporting conditional execution in the instruction scheduler and discuss the advantages of this approach compared to a stand-alone optimization pass that precedes the instruction scheduling. We have implemented the proposed optimization in the selective scheduling in GCC compiler. Experimental results show an average improvement of 2% (and up to 16% on selected tests) for SPECFP part of SPEC CPU2000 benchmark. |
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| ISSN: | 2079-8156 2220-6426 |