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  1. Matt P. Dziubinski Instruction cache misses are fairly common nowadays and for larger applications this is in fact a source of significant optimization opportunities (from the AsmDB paper: "13.8% of total performance potential wasted due to front-end latency, dominated by i-cache misses"). It's generally not automatic (although there are tools that can assist with select use cases) and you may have to spend some time on this.
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  3. Here are some of the resources that may be of help: Specifically for iTLB misses, see "Runtime Performance Optimization Blueprint: Large Code Pages" (https://software.intel.com/.../runtime-performance...).
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  5. You may be able to manually induce the compiler to select a basic block placement favoring a sequence of consecutive blocks that are likely to occur in a sequence using https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/likely (C++20) or https://nemequ.github.io/hedley/api-reference.html... (pre-C++20).
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  7. There are also tools for that, e.g., BOLT (Binary Optimization and Layout Tool) & PROPELLER (Profile Guided Optimizing Large Scale LLVM-based Relinker).
  8. You may be able to derive some benefits (even if indirectly) even from LTO in your compiler (e.g., https://hubicka.blogspot.com/.../gcc-9-link-time-and...).
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  10. Other than that, see:
  11. - AsmDB: Understanding and Mitigating Front-end Stalls in Warehouse-Scale Computers: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48320/
  12. - Avoiding instruction cache misses: https://pdziepak.github.io/.../06/21/avoiding-icache-misses/
  13. - https://easyperf.net/blog/2018/01/18/Code_alignment_issues
  14. - https://easyperf.net/.../Improving-performance-by-better...
  15. - https://easyperf.net/.../Understanding-IDQ_UOPS_NOT...
  16. - https://easyperf.net/.../Machine-code-layout-optimizatoins
  17. - Causes of Performance Instability due to Code Placement in X86: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX16gcX4vDQ
  18. - Improving LLVM Generated Code Size for X86 Processors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHexQSFud3w
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  20. Binary optimization tools (which include basic block layout optimizations):
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  22. - BOLT (Binary Optimization and Layout Tool)
  23. - A linux command-line utility used for optimizing performance of binaries
  24. - https://github.com/facebookincubator/BOLT
  25. - Accelerate large-scale applications with BOLT
  26. - https://code.fb.com/.../accelerate-large-scale.../
  27. - Building Binary Optimizer with LLVM
  28. - 2016 EuroLLVM Developers' Meeting; Maksim Panchenko
  29. - https://llvm.org/.../Presentations/BOLT_EuroLLVM_2016.pdf
  30. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw3iDO3By5Y
  31. - BOLT: A Practical Binary Optimizer for Data Centers and Beyond
  32. - Maksim Panchenko, Rafael Auler, Bill Nell, Guilherme Ottoni
  33. - https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06735
  34. - PROPELLER: Profile Guided Optimizing Large Scale LLVM-based Relinker
  35. - https://github.com/google/llvm-propeller
  36. - https://github.com/.../llv.../blob/plo-dev/Propeller_RFC.pdf
  37. - http://lists.llvm.org/.../llvm.../2019-September/135393.html
  38. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DySuXFGmB40
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