The Phase Order of Instruction Scheduling
Instruction scheduling may be done either before or after register allocation or both before and after it. The advantage of doing it before register allocation is that this results in maximum parallelism. The disadvantage of doing it before register allocation is that this can result in the register allocator needing to use a number of registers exceeding those available. This will cause spill/fill code to be introduced which will reduce the performance of the section of code in question.
If the architecture being scheduled has instruction sequences that have potentially illegal combinations (due to a lack of instruction interlocks) the instructions must be scheduled after register allocation. This second scheduling pass will also improve the placement of the spill/fill code.
If scheduling is only done after register allocation then there will be false dependencies introduced by the register allocation that will limit the amount of instruction motion possible by the scheduler.
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