Entry for the LITERATURE

[Toon Moene]

I just came across this jewel:

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From: metcalf@mail.cern.ch (Mike METCALF)
Organization: CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
Subject: XLF - all is revealed
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:12:21 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran


There are often discussions/speculations here about how given  
compilers optimize source code, and in particular about how they  
deal with optimal use of cache memory. I have just noticed a paper  
describing exactly how this is done in IBM's xlf compiler, using the  
-qhot option, as of version 4. The reference is: IBM J. Res.  
Develop., 41, 3, May 1997, 233-264 - Automatic selection of  
high-order transformations in the IBM XL Fortran compiler, V.  
Sarkar.

Highly recommended.

                Mike Metcalf

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Mike Metcalf is a long time (i.e. since mid-60's) CERN scientist  
who has been on various Fortran Standardisation bodies.

I hope this paper saves me a lot of explaining my `after the  
release' wish-list for Fortran specific optimisations :-)

David (Edelsohn), is this paper online somewhere ?

Cheers,
Toon.