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by pgaddict 624 days ago
Interesting question. I think most optimizations described in the BOLT paper are fairly hardware agnostic - branch prediction does not depend the architecture, etc. But I'm not an expert on microarchitectures.
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A lot of the benefits of BOLT come from fixing the block layout so that taken branches go backward and untaken branches go forward. This is CPU neutral.