[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR(M): 8212043: Add floating-point Math.min/max intrinsics

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/26/2018 11:36 AM, Pengfei Li (Arm Technology China) wrote:
> I got a reason why consecutive fmins are slower. The fmin sequence generated by the nested min() calls has RaW data dependencies. One fmin writes an fp register and the next fmin reads the same one. It leads the instruction pipeline to stall frequently.

Wouldn't that also be true for a non-intrinsic fmin too? Each fp register
output would be the input for a following comparison and conditional branch.

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Andrew Haley
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