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Re: Some thoughts about steerring commitee work
- From: "J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:02:39 +0200
- Subject: Re: Some thoughts about steerring commitee work
Please, to see
1. "The LLVM Compiler System" by Chris Lattner
http://llvm.org/pubs/2007-03-12-BossaLLVMIntro.html
http://llvm.org/pubs/2007-03-12-BossaLLVMIntro.pdf
2. "Vector LLVA: A Virtual Vector Instruction Set for Media Processing"
by Bocchino and Vikram
http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-06-15-VEE-VectorLLVA.html
http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-06-15-VEE-VectorLLVA.pdf
The LLVM follows the K.I.S.S. principle, GCC doesn't.
The optimizing stages of GCC's backend are big, fragmented and complex.
I think that the GCC's commitee goes to the wrong direction.