llvm dev - Mar 2011 - [LLVMdev] Is InstructionSimplify still a good place to contribute?

I'm looking for some opportunities to contribute to the LLVM core without
too big of a learning curve.  The open projects
page<http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html#misc_imp>suggests moving logic
from the instruction combining transformation to the
InstructionSimplify analysis.  But it looks like some work has been done
there since the projects page was last edited.  Is there more benefit to be
gained?

Thanks,

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Charlie Garrett
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Hi Charlie,
> I'm looking for some opportunities to contribute to the LLVM core
without too
> big of a learning curve.  The open projects page
> <http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html#misc_imp> suggests moving logic
from the
> instruction combining transformation to the InstructionSimplify analysis. 
But
> it looks like some work has been done there since the projects page was
last
> edited.  Is there more benefit to be gained?
yes.  InstSimplify is for transforms that do not create new instructions, for
example X-(X-Y) can be simplified to Y by instsimplify because Y was already
present.  On the other hand X-(X+Y) cannot be simplified to -Y by instsimplify
because it would have to create -Y as it wasn't present in the original
expression.  If you start looking through instcombine you should quickly find
some transforms that can be moved to instsimplify.  Sometimes entire transforms
cannot be moved, but special cases of the transform can be.  Of course a lot of
important transforms were moved already.

Ciao, Duncan.