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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index c9027e6..2355b38 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a><p> </div> -<!-- Done through Week-of-Mon-20080324.txt --> - <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <div class="doc_section"> <a name="intro">Introduction</a> @@ -70,7 +68,14 @@ It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.3.</p> Machine LICM Machine Sinking LegalizeDAGTypes + llc -enable-value-prop, propagation of value info (sign/zero ext info) from + one MBB to another --> + + <!-- for announcement email: + mention dev mtg + Xcode 3.1.1? + --> <!--=========================================================================--> <div class="doc_subsection"> @@ -79,7 +84,11 @@ It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.3.</p> <div class="doc_text"> -<p>....</p> +<p>The LLVM IR generated by llvm-gcc now doesn't name instructions. Use the + instnamer pass if you want them.</p> + + + <p>LLVM API Changes:</p> @@ -94,6 +103,8 @@ converted to strings using <tt>llvm::GetConstantStringInfo</tt> defined via "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h".</li> <li>API change: BinaryOperator::create -> Create (CmpInst, CastInst too)</li> +<li>Various header files like "llvm/ADT/iterator" were given a .h suffix. + Change your code to #include "llvm/ADT/iterator.h" instead.</li> </ul> </div> @@ -182,14 +193,14 @@ this section. is gone.</p> </li> -<li><p>fast isel, -O0 compile times</p></li> +<li><p>-O0 compile times overall much faster</p></li> <li><p>Attrs changes?</p></li> <li><p>Initial PIC16 port</p></li> -<li><p> builtin sync_compare_and_swap builtins + intrinsics</p></li> +<li><p> Support the rest of the atomic __sync builtins</p></li> <li><p>...</p></li> @@ -230,7 +241,7 @@ for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p> <li>use diet patch landed: saved 15% IR memory footprint</li> <li>LLVM IR now directly represents "common" linkage, instead of representing it as a form of weak linkage.</li> - +<li>DebugInfoBuilder</li> <li>...</li> </ul> @@ -248,6 +259,10 @@ LLVM 2.4 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p> <ul> +<li>GVN now does local PRE?</li> + +<li>Matthijs' Dead argument elimination rewrite</li> + <li>Old-ADCE used control dependence and deleted output-free infinite loops. Added a new Loop deletion pass (for deleting output free provably-finite loops) and rewrote ADCE to be simpler faster, and not need control dependence.</li> @@ -258,6 +273,10 @@ and rewrote ADCE to be simpler faster, and not need control dependence.</li> <li>Tail duplication was is removed from the standard optimizer sequence.</li> +<li>Various helper functions (ComputeMaskedBits, ComputeNumSignBits, etc) were +pulled out of instcombine and put into a new ValueTracking.h file, where they +can be reused by other passes.</li> + </ul> </div> @@ -274,7 +293,15 @@ which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run faster:</p> <ul> +<li>2-addr pass can now remat trivial insts to avoid a copy.</li> +<li>spiller to commute instructions in order to fold a reload</li> +<li>Stack slot coloring?</li> +<li>Live intervals renumbering? Is this useful to external people?</li> +<li>'is as cheap as a move' instruction flag</li> +<li>Improvements to selection dag viewing</li> +<li>fast isel</li> <li>Selection dag speedups</li> +<li>asmwriter + raw_ostream -> fastah</li> <li>...</li> </ul> @@ -292,7 +319,8 @@ faster:</p> </p> <ul> -<li>Exception handling is supported by default on x86-64 linux platform.</li> +<li>Exception handling is supported by default on Linux/x86-64.</li> +<li>Position Independent Code (PIC) is now support on Linux/x86-64.</li> <li>...</li> </ul> @@ -326,6 +354,7 @@ faster:</p> </p> <ul> +<li>raw_ostream + formatting</li> <li>...</li> </ul> |