[PATCH] update to ia64 performance projects list

Janis Johnson janis187@us.ibm.com
Tue Nov 13 15:03:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:17:53PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:14:58PM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > +<li>Profile information could be used to improve linearization of the code,
> >  and for if-conversion to decide which side of the branch should be
> > +predicated.  It could also be used for delay slots.</li>
> 
> It _is_ used for predication and delay slots.
> 
> As for linearization, Jan has code to do some trace scheduling
> on his cfg-branch.  I've not yet looked at how well it works.
> 
> > +<p>Richard Henderson says we could rip out CFG detection, use regular data
> 
> 					     ^ "the Haifa scheduler's"

Thanks for the comments.  This text has all been there since the original
file, it was just moved around some for this patch.  There's probably other
information in this file that is out of date, incomplete, or incorrect, and
corrections would be greatly appreciated.

Janis



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