Re: [Lightning] Re: Predicting generated code size

[Sandro Magi]

On 9/28/07, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Or perhaps, some technique to chain buffers together and auto-insert a
> > jmp to the next buffer address when the current buffer is full?
>
> That's another possibility.  It makes code generation faster, compared
> to reallocating a new buffer and restarting from scratch, but it might
> be cache-unfriendly.

Hmm, I would expect branch prediction rate to be 100% since it's an
unconditional jump, so it should only be a minor hit, if any.

Sandro