[ping] Vectorizer patches for 4.8

[Richard Guenther]

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
>
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>  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
>  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
>  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com
>