LLVM optimisation passes / tables next to code

Sergiu Ivanov unlimitedscolobb at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 19:07:17 CET 2012


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:25 AM, David Terei <davidterei at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It has arrived at a kind of conclusion. The trick suggested by Chris
> seems like it should work, only concern would be that we can encode
> the jmp instruction in constant space (and if not how to handle by
> padding or splitting the table). Also not sure what performance impact
> would be of having an unconditional jmp at the start of every function
> but seems probably minimal to me.

Since I haven't got any new mails on this topic in a week, am I right
when assuming that the idea with the jump instruction is the one I
should start researching into?

Sergiu



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