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Re: [RFC] Matrix Flattening optimization

Just to clarify:

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:43:54PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> I'd imagine fortran programs would find it useful as well, as do a lot
> of floating point array intensive apps. The fact that it helps equake is
> not some well known hack, it's just from getting better locality, AFAIK.

I know this, which is why I what I was trying to ask was...

> In general, combining malloc calls and hoisting them out of loops is a
> win, if you couldn't vectorize or interchange the original loop (due to
> dependences, etc).

...whether this occured often enough in Real Code to bother.

How would Fortran programs find it useful?  Shouldn't the Fortran
compiler be generating the array flat in the first place?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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