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Re: overhead of bfd_{get,put}*()

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:34:47 +0000 (UTC)

> Hopefully the more complicated option of the runtime check for alignment 
> (using __builtin_expect to mark the aligned case as very likely) would 
> help.

Right.

> If you inline the functions it might even be possible for the 
> compiler to deduce the alignment in some cases, though I suspect that 
> won't happen much.  Of course you'd need to benchmark to see what helps.

These are target methods invoked via BFD upcalls, they can't be
inlined.
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