InstructionOverhead

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Description

The pattern "Instruction Overhead" describes the fact that for a piece of high-level code, the compiler outputs a lot of instructions although is could be done in less. One common example are non-vectorized instructions.


Symptoms

Detection

Possible optimizations and/or fixes

Applicable applications or algorithms or kernels