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Re: Using __builtin_expect (likely/unlikely macros)


From: Alex Gramiak
Subject: Re: Using __builtin_expect (likely/unlikely macros)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:45:27 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux)

Konstantin Kharlamov <address@hidden> writes:

> The slowdown is to be expected, given that GCC devs said that "cold" produces
> very inefficient code.

I took his statement to mean that the code generated in cold branches
are very inefficient. In this case that would refer to the
obsolete/unused/error CASEs, which should not be getting called, so I
don't believe the slowdown is to be expected.



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