llvm dev - Apr 2008 - [LLVMdev] Goog test-cases for a new register allocator

On Apr 2, 2008, at 4:47 PM, David Greene wrote:
>> I think these requirements are not specific for my allocator only,  
>> but
>> are important for checking any register allocator. May be someone
>> (Fernando? David? Evan?) who was working on register allocators has
>> found a good set of examples covering some of the topics? Or may be
>> someone knows good examples due to the fact that current register
>> allocators perform too bad on it? ;-)
>
> I've found the NAS Parallel Benchmarks to be quite a good workout:
>
> http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Resources/Software/npb.html
>
> They are medium-sized benchmarks, so substantial without being totally
> overwhelming.  They manifest pretty much all of your points above.   
> The
> basic linear scan algorithm seems to do fairly well on them so it  
> makes
> for a good comparison.
>
> I use version 2.3, the serial flavor (yes, I understand the  
> irony :) ).
Could these be added to llvm-test?

-Chris

On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>
> Could these be added to llvm-test?
>
> -Chris
I just added the two C benchmarks as MultiSource/Benchmarks/NPB-serial.

--Owen
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On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Owen Anderson wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>>
>> Could these be added to llvm-test?
>>
>> -Chris
>
> I just added the two C benchmarks as MultiSource/Benchmarks/NPB- 
> serial.
Nice, thanks!

-Chris

> I just added the two C benchmarks as MultiSource/Benchmarks/NPB-serial.
Since llvm-gcc can compile fortran now, how about adding the rest of
the benchmarks too?

Ciao,

Duncan.