Request for reviews (XXL): 6961690: load oops from constant table on SPARC

[Paul Hohensee]

Depends on the platform whether it's a win or not.  When we did the original
sparc64 port, it was faster to materialize 64-bit constants inline than 
to do
a load.  This was on U3s.  Ditto U4s and U4+s when we tried them.  Faster to
do multi-issue (3 clocks max) than to tolerate a potential L1 miss.

Paul

On 11/15/10 8:45 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>> Most important is why it is not under flag?
>
>
> Hmm, I never thought about putting it under a flag since in theory 
> materializing the constant table base address only once instead of 
> every time it's required should always be a win.
>
> -- Christian