Makes deep code inspection easier.

This sub-project was made to easily compare two programs' ASM code using objdump and/or Intel IACA.

The assembly dump doesn't require anything except objdump that should already be installed on your computer, however if you want to inspect code using IACA you must download IACA from Intel's website and unzip iaca-lin64 in the ext folder at the project's root.

Graphs are also generated and can be converted into SVG and/or PDF using dot to visualize critical paths.

The project provides a (very) minimal header to add marks into your ASM code (FC_MARKER define).

Add your sources in a src__[NAME] folder and the build script will take care of the rest, ie :

• Build as bin/[NAME]
• Disassembly as bin/[NAME].asm
• IACA inspection as bin/[NAME].iaca

You can see it at work on my boost.simd_playground project where I extensively use it to compare code generated using boost.simd and custom assembly code or other SIMD optimized (or not) C++ code (OpenBLAS, GLM and "dumb" C++ versions that are just written as clean as possible).

fast-asm-compare is directly cloned into the main project folder then all the "inspection projects" are symlinked from the examples/compare folder, then external libraries are also linked from the ext folder.

The only thing you might have to do is to add/link IACA into fast-asm-compare's ext folder.