In GCC, there is a builtin called "__builtin_expect" that allows us to tell if we expect a branch to hit or not so the compiler can choose the branch prediction we want (unless I don't understand something correctly). Is there a way to do that in LDC?

On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 10:02:21 UTC, rempas wrote:

Yes: https://github.com/ldc-developers/druntime/blob/bf27af6ef6dab9e45f005f67cc42e3a3bb393623/src/ldc/intrinsics.di#L616-L624

On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 13:19:33 UTC, kinke wrote:

Thank you for your answer! However, I'm trying to understand how it works but I cannot seem to get it. I'm trying to do something like the following but it seems that it doesn't work (as it makes sense):

import ldc.intrinsics;
import core.stdc.stdio;

extern (C) void main() {
  int x = 0;
  llvm_expect(x < 10, 0) {
    printf("x is less than 10!\n");
  }
}

I did tried for about half an hour but couldn't find anything... Any ideas how it works?

On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 20:31:41 UTC, rempas wrote:

As with gcc's __builtin_expect, one normally uses it in an if condition: if (llvm_expect(x < 10, false)) ….

On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 22:34:23 UTC, kinke wrote:

Oh, how I didn't thought about trying this out....

Thank you! This will do the trick! Have an amazing day my friend!