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Does GCC perform profile-guided switch case reordering and balancing?

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I'm working on a program where a few switch statements end up being hotspots. Some manual experimentation shows that rearranging switch cases so that more commonly executed ones appear together helps, as does checking for the most common case separately. The downside is that it makes the code uglier. Can GCC perform these kinds of optimizations as part of PGO, and how good is it at it?

posted Jul 21, 2013 by anonymous

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