llvm dev - May 2008 - [LLVMdev] [PATCH] Split LoopUnroll pass into mechanism and policy

On May 6, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Devang Patel wrote:
> Dan,
>
> On May 6, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Dan Gohman wrote:
>
>> This should still make it easy to write new unrolling passes with
>> custom heuristics, but it would also be more flexible for passes to
>> do unrolling in combination with other transformations.
>
> Do you mean unrolling during other transformation or before/after
> other transformation ? Do you have specific example in mind ?
Another example is the combined unroll and prefetch technique
described in the AMD 5.5

Dan

Hi Dan,
> in the AMD 5.5
What's that? Got a link? Google only finds some kind of golf cart powered by
the "Advanced Motors & Drivers 5.5" engine :-)

Gr.

Matthijs
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On May 7, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
>> in the AMD 5.5
> What's that? Got a link? Google only finds some kind of golf cart  
> powered by
> the "Advanced Motors & Drivers 5.5" engine :-)
Oops, I meant AMD's Software Optimization Guide, section 5.5.

Dan