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Re: 10 Nov notes from GCC improvement for Itanium conference call
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: mksmith at gelato dot org
- Cc: gelato-gcc at gelato dot unsw dot edu dot au (Gelato-GCC), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (GCC)
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:12:17 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: 10 Nov notes from GCC improvement for Itanium conference call
> I told about importance of early access to machines based on new
> Itanium chip (Montecito) and documentation for gcc developers trying
> to improve gcc for Itanium.
>
> As for Mark Davis remark about rewriting RTL optimizations, I told
> that it can not be done easily.
HUH? An example of something which can be rewritten easy and make
an improvement on IA64 is the ifcvt pass which can make more use
of ia64's predicates.
-- Pinski