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Out-of-Order Core..................................................................................................... 1-30
In-Order Retirement.................................................................................................. 1-31
Microarchitecture of Intel
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Core™ Solo and Intel
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Core™ Duo Processors........................ 1-31
Front End........................................................................................................................ 1-32
Data Prefetching............................................................................................................. 1-33
Hyper-Threading Technology................................................................................................ 1-33
Processor Resources and Hyper-Threading Technology............................................... 1-36
Replicated Resources............................................................................................... 1-36
Partitioned Resources .............................................................................................. 1-36
Shared Resources.................................................................................................... 1-37
Microarchitecture Pipeline and Hyper-Threading Technology........................................ 1-38
Front End Pipeline......................................................................................................... 1-38
Execution Core............................................................................................................... 1-39
Retirement...................................................................................................................... 1-39
Multi-Core Processors........................................................................................................... 1-39
Microarchitecture Pipeline and Multi-Core Processors................................................... 1-42
Shared Cache in Intel Core Duo Processors ................................................................. 1-42
Load and Store Operations....................................................................................... 1-42
Chapter 2 General Optimization Guidelines
Tuning to Achieve Optimum Performance .............................................................................. 2-1
Tuning to Prevent Known Coding Pitfalls................................................................................ 2-2
General Practices and Coding Guidelines.............................................................................. 2-3
Use Available Performance Tools..................................................................................... 2-4
Optimize Performance Across Processor Generations.................................................... 2-4
Optimize Branch Predictability.......................................................................................... 2-5
Optimize Memory Access................................................................................................. 2-5
Optimize Floating-point Performance............................................................................... 2-6
Optimize Instruction Selection.......................................................................................... 2-6
Optimize Instruction Scheduling....................................................................................... 2-7
Enable Vectorization......................................................................................................... 2-7
Coding Rules, Suggestions and Tuning Hints......................................................................... 2-8
Performance Tools.................................................................................................................. 2-9
Intel
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C++ Compiler ......................................................................................................... 2-9
General Compiler Recommendations ............................................................................ 2-10
VTune™ Performance Analyzer..................................................................................... 2-10
Processor Perspectives ........................................................................................................ 2-11
CPUID Dispatch Strategy and Compatible Code Strategy ............................................. 2-13
Transparent Cache-Parameter Strategy......................................................................... 2-14
Threading Strategy and Hardware Multi-Threading Support.......................................... 2-14