Software Pipelining

• Enabled with -o2 and -o3 compiler options

• Example

  • Stages of the loop are A, B, C, D, and E
  • A maximum of five stages execute at the same time

Trip count

Redundant loops

Loop unrolling

Speculative execution(epilog removal)

[Fig. 4-13, Prog. Guide]

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