Apple Microarchitecture Research by Dougall Johnson

M1/A14 P-core (Firestorm): Overview | Base Instructions | SIMD and FP Instructions
M1/A14 E-core (Icestorm):  Overview | Base Instructions | SIMD and FP Instructions

MOV (bitmask immediate, 64-bit)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  mov x0, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  nop ; nop ; nop

(no loop instructions)

1000 unrolls and 1 iteration

Retires (minus 3 nops): 1.000

Issues: 0.000

Integer unit issues: 0.001

Load/store unit issues: 0.000

SIMD/FP unit issues: 0.000

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Test 2: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  mov x0, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  mov x1, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  mov x2, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  mov x3, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  mov x4, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  mov x5, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  mov x6, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  mov x7, #0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.2511

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.2507

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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