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libctf: having debugging enabled is unlikely

The deduplicator can emit enormous amounts of debugging output,
so much so that a later commit will introduce a new configure flag
that configures most of it out (and configures it out by default).

It became clear that when this configure flag is on, but debugging is
not enabled via the LIBCTF_DEBUG environment variable, up to 10% of
runtime can be spent on branch mispredictions checking the _libctf_debug
variable.  Mark it unlikely to be set (when it is set, performance is
likely to be the least of your concerns).

libctf/
	* ctf-subr.c (ctf_dprintf): _libctf_debug is unlikely to be set.
gdb-10-branch
Nick Alcock 6 years ago
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      libctf/ChangeLog
  2. 2
      libctf/ctf-subr.c

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libctf/ChangeLog

@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
2020-07-22 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
* ctf-subr.c (ctf_dprintf): _libctf_debug is unlikely to be set.
2020-07-22 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
* ctf-impl.h (struct ctf_archive_internal)

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libctf/ctf-subr.c

@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ int ctf_getdebug (void)
_libctf_printflike_ (1, 2)
void ctf_dprintf (const char *format, ...)
{
if (_libctf_debug)
if (_libctf_unlikely_ (_libctf_debug))
{
va_list alist;

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