All Gen platforms had pretty similar results. (Skylake shown)
total instructions in shared programs: 14277230 -> 14277220 (<.01%)
instructions in affected programs: 751 -> 741 (-1.33%)
helped: 4
HURT: 0
helped stats (abs) min: 2 max: 3 x̄: 2.50 x̃: 2
helped stats (rel) min: 1.23% max: 1.40% x̄: 1.32% x̃: 1.32%
95% mean confidence interval for instructions value: -3.42 -1.58
95% mean confidence interval for instructions %-change: -1.47% -1.17%
Instructions are helped.
total cycles in shared programs: 532577947 -> 532577908 (<.01%)
cycles in affected programs: 10641 -> 10602 (-0.37%)
helped: 4
HURT: 3
helped stats (abs) min: 1 max: 40 x̄: 13.75 x̃: 7
helped stats (rel) min: 0.11% max: 3.08% x̄: 1.10% x̃: 0.60%
HURT stats (abs) min: 2 max: 8 x̄: 5.33 x̃: 6
HURT stats (rel) min: 0.13% max: 0.55% x̄: 0.30% x̃: 0.23%
95% mean confidence interval for cycles value: -20.69 9.55
95% mean confidence interval for cycles %-change: -1.63% 0.63%
Inconclusive result (value mean confidence interval includes 0).
Signed-off-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Helland <thomashelland90@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>