Investigate generating out-of-line branch tables in ARM GCC
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Matthew Gretton-Dann
The AArch64 support in GCC allows generation of branch tables in read-only data sections rather than inline with the instruction stream. We should investigate porting this support to ARM and see if it produces performance improvements
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Matthew Gretton-Dann
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Discussion
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 4.7
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
-
backlog
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- Completed by
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Work Items
Work items:
Port support from aarch64 to arm backend: TODO
Benchmark: TODO
Document: TODO
