Option | Description |
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-prof_gen[x] | Instructs the compiler to produce instrumented code in your object files in preparation for instrumented execution. |
-prof_use | Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized executable and merges available dynamic information (.dyn) files into a pgopti.dpi file. |
In cases where your code behavior differs greatly between executions, you have to ensure that the benefit of the profile information is worth the effort required to maintain up-to-date profiles. In the basic profile-guided optimization, the following options are used in the phases of the PGO:
The -prof_gen[x] option instruments the program for profiling to get the execution count of each basic block. It is used in Phase 1 of the PGO to instruct the compiler to produce instrumented code in your object files in preparation for instrumented execution. Parallel make is automatically supported for -prof_genx compilations.
The -prof_use option is used in Phase 3 of the PGO to instruct the compiler to produce a profile-optimized executable and merges available dynamic-information (.dyn) files into a pgopti.dpi file.
Note
The dynamic-information files are produced in Phase 2 when you run the instrumented executable.
If you perform multiple executions of the instrumented program, -prof_use merges the dynamic-information files again and overwrites the previous pgopti.dpi file.
-fnsplit- disables function splitting. Function splitting is enabled by -prof_use in Phase 3 to improve code locality by splitting routines into different sections: one section to contain the cold or very infrequently executed code and one section to contain the rest of the code (hot code).
You can use -fnsplit- to disable function splitting for the following reasons: