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Hotspot in Accelerate Framework

Hi,

I've done a little shark profiling on my application. The main core of it is using LAPACK in the accelerate framework to solve a large set of simultaneous equations with sgells_. There appears to be one function (libBLAS.dylib ATL_srot_xp0yp0aXbX) which uses 43% of my run time. I took a quick look at it and it seems to be a loop which calculates a*b-c*d and a*d-c*b where a and c are constants over the loop, and appears very stall heavy on my machine (a G4+, looks mainly like data dependancies). Switch Shark to a G5 and it appears to get worse (bigger stalls, which probably negate the two fp-ops per dispatch group bonus).

Is there anything I can do about this? (probably not because it's in a framework)
It looks like it could be unrolled reasonably easily. Could I write a new version and then override the dynamic linker to point at my new version?
Is there any way of knowing if my code (actually, the LAPACK code) is calling this with large loop counts or just very often? (to know if unrolling would be worthwhile)

Thanks

Paul
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mr. r3,r3 1:1 ! Inline
beqlr 1:1
mtctr r3 *2:2
0.0% slwi r7,r7,2 1:1
slwi r5,r5,2 1:1
2.3% lfs f13,0(r4) 4:1 ! Stall=2, Unaligned loop start
22.5% lfs f0,0(r6) 4:1 Stall=2
6.0% fmuls f12,f2,f13 5:1 Stall=3
6.3% fmuls f11,f2,f0 5:1 Stall=3
1.6% fmsubs f0,f1,f0,f12 5:1 Stall=3
2.0% fmadds f13,f1,f13,f11 5:1 Stall=2
1.8% stfs f0,0(r6) 3:3
add r6,r6,r7 1:1
0.6% stfs f13,0(r4) 3:3
add r4,r4,r5 1:1
bdnz $-40 1:1 Loop end[1]
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