LLVM 2.8 is available
LLVM 2.8 is available
Posted Oct 8, 2010 20:43 UTC (Fri) by bjacob (guest, #58566)In reply to: LLVM 2.8 is available by daglwn
Parent article: LLVM 2.8 is available
How can its "whole" design be a relic of the 80's after gcc 4.0 introduced such large design changes 5 years ago?
Posted Oct 9, 2010 0:05 UTC (Sat)
by daglwn (guest, #65432)
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Those changes did not nearly go far enough.
The tree vectorization stuff (particularly the use of PPL) is probably the most interesting thing in gcc. It's not a coincidence they had to go outside the gcc IR to do dependence analysis.
LLVM 2.8 is available
Those changes had to fit within an existing framework.