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Re: [ping] Vectorizer patches for 4.8
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:57:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ping] Vectorizer patches for 4.8
- References: <201203081456.q28EuHxC016067@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ira Rosen posted a couple of vectorizer patches intended for 4.8:
>
> ? http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-02/msg00191.html
> ? http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-02/msg00223.html
>
> As she is no longer able to contribute to GCC, she has asked
> me to help push these upstream now that 4.8 is in stage 1.
>
> We've been carrying those patches for a while in our Linaro GCC
> builds for ARM, and they're showing significant improvements in
> certain embedded test cases.
>
> I've now retested both patches on i386-linux with no regressions;
> the PowerPC team has helped with retesting on powerpc64-linux
> with no regressions, and there are (as expected) no significant
> changes in PowerPC benchmark results either.
>
> OK to commit the two patches to mainline?
Ok.
Who will be able to help with problems with those patches?
Thanks,
Richard.
> Bye,
> Ulrich
>
> --
> ?Dr. Ulrich Weigand
> ?GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
> ?Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com
>