Comment by nonadhocproblem
2 days ago
I've also been working on a compressor recently, and the same general idea (letting the compiler know that a data dependency occurs very infrequently, and it should therefore assume none exists to exploit ILP) has allowed me to speed up my decompression by a lot:
https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77/blob/777...
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