Comment by kaba0

10 months ago

CPUs spend an enormous amount of time waiting for IO and memory, and push/pop and similar are just insanely well optimized. As the article also claims, I would be very surprised to see any effect, unless that more instructions themselves would spill the I-cache.

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charleshn  10 months ago

I've seen around 1-3% on non micro benchmarks, real applications.

Aee also this benchmark from Phoronix [0]:

  Of the 100 tests carried out for this article, when taking the geometric mean of all these benchmarks it equated to about a 14% performance penalty of the software with -O2 compared to when adding -fno-omit-frame-pointer.

I'm not saying these benchmarks or the workloads I've seen are representative of the "real world", but people keep repeating that frame pointers are basically free, which is just not the case.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-frame-pointer