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4 The intent of this file is to record progress in improving performance.
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8 - Julian made LibVEX_Alloc() inlinable. Saved a couple of percent.
9 - Julian started building Vex at -O2. Saved up to 8% or so(?) in some
13 - Julian made the tree builder linear. Saved 2--13% on a range of programs.
14 - Nick improved vg_SP_update_pass() to identify more small constant
15 increments/decrements of SP, so the fast cases can be used more often.
16 Saved 1--3% on a few programs.
17 - r5345,r5346,r5352: Julian improved the dispatcher so that x86 and
18 AMD64 use jumps instead of call/return for calling translations.
19 Also, on x86, amd64, ppc32 and ppc64, --profile-flags style profiling was
20 removed from the despatch loop unless --profile-flags is being used.
21 Improved Nulgrind performance typically by 10--20%, and Memcheck
22 performance typically by 2--20%.
23 - Julian changed findSb to slowly move superblocks to the front of the list
24 as they were accessed. This sped up perf/heap by 25--50%, and some big
25 programs (eg. ktuberling) programs by a couple of percent.
26 - Nick reduced the iteration count of the loop in swizzle() from 20 to 5,
27 which gave almost identical results while saving 2% in perf/tinycc and 10%
28 in perf/heap on a 3GHz Prescott P4.
29 - Nick changed ExeContext gathering to not record/save extra zeroes at the
30 end. Saved 7% on perf/heap with --num-callers=50, and about 1% on
32 - Julian vectorised copy_address_range_perms for common cases, which
33 gives about 40% speedup on artificial programs which just do
34 realloc() and nothing else, and about a 3-4% speedup on starting
35 kpresenter-1.5.0 and loading a 16-slide presentation.
38 - Nick converted to compress V bits, initial version saved 0--5% on most
39 cases, with a 30% improvement on one case (tsim_arch) which calls
40 set_address_range_perms() a lot.
41 - Nick rewrote set_address_range_perms(), which gained 0--3% typically,