Intel® VTune™ Profiler User Guide

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Flags Merge Stalls

Metric Description

Some instructions have increased latency on Intel microarchitecture code name Sandy Bridge. Shift cl operations require a potentially expensive flag merge. This metric estimates the performance penalty of that merge.

Possible Issues

A significant proportion of cycles were spent handling flags merge operations. Use the source view to discover the responsible instructions and try to avoid their use.

Product and Performance Information

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