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[PATCH] documentation, projects/ia64.html
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: [PATCH] documentation, projects/ia64.html
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:24:19 -0700
I'm way behind in keeping the "Projects to improve performance on IA-64"
section of the projects list up to date, but here's one needed change.
OK to commit?
Janis
Index: ia64.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/projects/ia64.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 ia64.html
--- ia64.html 2001/07/30 11:25:06 1.2
+++ ia64.html 2001/08/30 17:20:24
@@ -130,18 +130,12 @@
and for if-conversion to decide which side of the branch should be
predicated. It could also be used for delay slots.</p>
-<p>Tasks:
-<ul>
-<li>Make sure it works.</li>
-<li>Add tests to make sure it continues to work.</li>
-<li>Improve the documentation.</li>
-<li>Run various benchmarks.</li>
-<li>Investigate cases where profile-directed block ordering causes
-performance to decrease.</li>
-<li>Try it on the Linux kernel and discuss the information.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Janis Johnson is working on this and welcomes help, particularly
-in analyzing (and then fixing) cases where performance decreases.
+<p>Jan Hubicka, together with Richard Henderson and Andreas Jaeger,
+has contributed
+<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/news/profiledriven.html";>infrastructure for
+profile driven optimizations</a>,
+including improvements to profile-directed block ordering and
+static block ordering. The description lists items for future work.
</p>
<li>Code locality: static function ordering