RFR: 8071571: Move substring of same string to slow path

[Vitaly Davidovich]

Yes, that should be the general rule of thumb for code targeting out of
order chips.  The caveat is that microbenchmarks have the advantage of
being the only (typically very small) code running on the cpu, and will get
full use of execution resources; specifically in this case, it's very
likely that the branch history of this code will stay in the buffer and not
be evicted by other code, as you'd find in a more complex (non-microbench)
scenario.  Microbenching is hard :).

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On May 13, 2015 7:12 PM, "Martin Buchholz" <martinrb at google.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> :) The branch avoiding versions may cause data dependence hazards whereas
>> the branchy one just has branches but assuming perfectly predicted (and
>> microbenchmarks typically are) can pipeline through.  Ivan, could you
>> please post the asm here? Assuming you guys are interested in investigating
>> this further.
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> there might be a new rule of thumb there: only eliminate branches if they
> are unlikely to be predicted.
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