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Re: IPA branch
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 19:12, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I've branches the IPA branch yesterday and re-directed current SPEC
> > > testers running tree-profiling branch (now officially retired ;) to it.
> > > ( http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/amd64 ).
> > > The branch should be used for interprocedural optimization projects that
> > > has serious chance to get into 4.2 (or perhaps longer term plans as
> > > long as they won't interfere with merging changes to 4.1).
> > >
> > > I plan to implement the SSA based inlining to the branch and will start
> > > pushing patches probably sometime next week.
> > >
> > > I would especially welcome frotend fixes for the multiple decls problems
> > > so we can compile SPEC in whole program mode wihtout ugly hacks ;))
> > > Please use IPA in the subject line if you don't want me to miss the
> > > patches to branch.
> >
> > Forgot to mention, the tag is ipa-branch ;)
>
> I guess the web pages should be updated with something like the attached?
This looks fine to me. Thanks! Perhaps even cvs.html should mention
that tree-profiling was almost fully merged and retired?
Honza
>
> Gr.
> Steven
>
> Index: cvs.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/cvs.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.198
> diff -u -3 -p -r1.198 cvs.html
> --- cvs.html 28 Jul 2005 21:09:10 -0000 1.198
> +++ cvs.html 4 Aug 2005 18:30:25 -0000
> @@ -145,12 +145,10 @@ generally of the form "gcc-<i>X</i>_<i>Y
>
> <dl>
>
> - <dt><a href="projects/tree-profiling.html">tree-profiling-branch</a></dt>
> - <dd>This branch is for the development of profiling heuristics
> - and profile based optimizations for trees, such as profile driven inline
> - heuristics. Another goal of this branch is to demonstrate that maintaining
> - the CFG and profile information over expanding from GIMPLE trees to RTL
> - is feasible and can bring considerable performance improvements.</dd>
> + <dt>ipa-branch</dt>
> + <dd>This is a branch for the development interprocedural optimizations
> + such as inlining and cloning, interprocedural alias analysis, and so on.
> + This branch is being maintained by Jan Hubicka</dd>
>
> <dt>struct-reorg-branch</dt>
> <dd>This branch is for the development of structure reorganization
> @@ -476,6 +474,13 @@ be prefixed with the initials of the dis
> of the passes. It has now been merged into mainline for the
> 4.1 release.</dd>
>
> + <dt><a href="projects/tree-profiling.html">tree-profiling-branch</a></dt>
> + <dd>This branch is for the development of profiling heuristics
> + and profile based optimizations for trees, such as profile driven inline
> + heuristics. Another goal of this branch is to demonstrate that maintaining
> + the CFG and profile information over expanding from GIMPLE trees to RTL
> + is feasible and can bring considerable performance improvements.</dd>
> +
> <dt>bje-unsw-branch</dt>
> <dd>This branch was dedicated to some research work by Ben Elliston
> at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on transformation
> Index: projects/tree-profiling.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/projects/tree-profiling.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -u -3 -p -r1.2 tree-profiling.html
> --- projects/tree-profiling.html 4 Jul 2004 21:00:54 -0000 1.2
> +++ projects/tree-profiling.html 4 Aug 2005 18:30:25 -0000
> @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
> <body>
> <h1>Improving GCC's Interprocedural Optimizaion Infrastructure</h1>
>
> +<h3>This page describes the work done in 2005 on the
> +<code>tree-profiling-branch</code>. This branch is now retired. Work
> +in the same area (IPA) has continued on the <code>ipa-branch</code></h3>
> +
> <p>This page describes ongoing work to improve GCC's infrastructure
> for tree-based interprocedural optimizers. The work is done on a
> branch in GCC's CVS repository called <code>tree-profiling-branch</code>.</p>