[LLVMdev] interesting preso

Chris Lattner
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:07:29 -0000

On Nov 7, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Renato Golin wrote:

> 2009/11/7 Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>:
>> I enjoyed this presentation:
>>
http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/compiler_survey_felix_von_leitner.pdf
>
> Wow, very comprehensive!
>
> Is there anyone working on vectorization? This is something that
> interests me, I might give it a try, just need some pointers.

The first step is loop dependence analysis.  This is required to
determine loop reuse information and is the basis for a lot of
vectorization and parallelization loop transformations.  There is work
in this area in mainline llvm, but I don't know the status of it.

-Chris