Code generation for multiway branches

s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl (Steven Bosscher)
24 May 2004 00:31:52 -0400

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From: s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl (Steven Bosscher)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 May 2004 00:31:52 -0400
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Posted-Date: 24 May 2004 00:31:52 EDT

Hello,


Does anyone know of a paper about code generation for multiway
branches using profile information?


I have found "Compiler code ceneration for Multiway branch statements
as a static search problem" by D.A. Spuler, but the algoriths
discussed in this paper and the ones it refers to all assume that all
cases are equally likely. That's exactly what I don't want :-)


Has anyone seen a paper that takes branch probabilities into account?


Thanks,
Gr.
Steven
[Well, there was the Fortran FREQUENCY statement which they dropped
when they realized that programmers have no idea what the probabilities
are. -John]


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