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Subject: Re: g++ 3.4 and -fprofile-generate

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:26:50 02/16/05

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On February 16, 2005 at 15:57:46, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On February 16, 2005 at 15:33:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2005 at 14:28:57, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>
>>>On February 16, 2005 at 13:19:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 16, 2005 at 13:09:14, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I have been using the profile generated optimisation option, but the code it
>>>>>produces is no faster then with simple -O3.
>>>
>>>I have no experience on AMD64. On x86 it works well for me, under Linux and
>>>Windows.
>>>
>>>>ICC (Intel's compiler) works fine and that is what I use
>>>>myself.
>>>
>>>Does profile guided optimizatation with ICC work for you, when you run crafty
>>>under xboard. It doesn't work for me.
>>
>>Never tried.  I do my profile runs via a "Make profile" where I have a target
>>that compiles for profiling, runs a bunch of test cases, then compiles using the
>>data gathered to improve the code.  So my profiling is all in "command mode" as
>>well, which is just as good since the xboard stuff is not in the search of my
>>program at all anyway.
>>
>>
>>> Console runs work fine. With gcc, I can
>>>rund a match Yace-Crafty under Xboard. That gave better speedups than
>>>test-suites. But no luck with ICC here. I get very modest speedups with PGO and
>>>ICC (more with gcc). However, ICC is fast even without PGO.
>>
>>I can't get gcc to compile and run crafty with profiling optimizations.  It will
>>produce the profile data files fine, but when I go to re-compile with the
>>options to use the profile data, it complains about one or more of the profile
>>data files being corrupted.  I've tested this hundreds of times since this was
>>put into gcc, no luck at all.  I seem to recall I might have gotten it to work
>>on the opteron last year, but I don't believe there was any speedup if I did,
>>and I might well be remembering that wrong anyway.
>>
>>But gcc won't profile-optimize for me period. although it will profile just fine
>>and produce output that helps in analyzing performance.
>>
>>
>>
>
>I had this phenomenon and I got rid of it by removing an optimization option.
>I'm afraid I don't remember which one, but I think it was -fomit_frame_pointer;
>I discovered what the problem was while reading a website, which I can no longer
>find.
>
>Andrew


I think I did this.  It seems to me that -fomit-frame-pointer produces errors
when used with any sort of profiling, but I am not sure...

I'll try again to see...



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