Ian Romanick
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All of the affected shaders are Unreal4 demos. All Gen6+ platforms had similar results. (Skylake shown) total instructions in shared programs: 15437170 -> 15437001 (<.01%) instructions in affected programs: 21536 -> 21367 (-0.78%) helped: 43 HURT: 0 helped stats (abs) min: 1 max: 4 x̄: 3.93 x̃: 4 helped stats (rel) min: 0.68% max: 1.01% x̄: 0.80% x̃: 0.80% 95% mean confidence interval for instructions value: -4.07 -3.79 95% mean confidence interval for instructions %-change: -0.83% -0.77% Instructions are helped. total cycles in shared programs: 383007896 -> 383007378 (<.01%) cycles in affected programs: 158640 -> 158122 (-0.33%) helped: 38 HURT: 4 helped stats (abs) min: 1 max: 48 x̄: 13.89 x̃: 6 helped stats (rel) min: 0.03% max: 1.01% x̄: 0.33% x̃: 0.19% HURT stats (abs) min: 2 max: 3 x̄: 2.50 x̃: 2 HURT stats (rel) min: 0.06% max: 0.09% x̄: 0.08% x̃: 0.08% 95% mean confidence interval for cycles value: -16.90 -7.77 95% mean confidence interval for cycles %-change: -0.39% -0.19% Cycles are helped. Iron Lake and GM45 had similar results. (Iron Lake shown) total instructions in shared programs: 8213746 -> 8213745 (<.01%) instructions in affected programs: 127 -> 126 (-0.79%) helped: 1 HURT: 0 total cycles in shared programs: 187734146 -> 187734144 (<.01%) cycles in affected programs: 2132 -> 2130 (-0.09%) helped: 1 HURT: 0 Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
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