RFR(S): 8154135: Loop alignment may be added inside the loop body

Roland Westrelin rwestrel at redhat.com
Fri Apr 15 11:14:41 UTC 2016


Hi Christian,

Thanks for looking at this.

> I wonder if this has any performance implications (good or bad).
> This alignment is not aarch64 specific so we were doing it all the
> time.

Unless I'm missing something nops in the body of a loop can't really
help performance. This looks like a bug to me.

Roland.


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