Performance optimizations for Intel Core 2 and Core i7 processors

[Maxim Kuvyrkov]

CodeSourcery is working on improving performance for Intel's Core 2 and 
Core i7 families of processors.

CodeSourcery plans to add support for unaligned vector instructions, to 
provide fine-tuned scheduling support and to update instruction 
selection and instruction cost models for Core i7 and Core 2 families of 
processors.

As usual, CodeSourcery will be contributing its work to GCC.  Currently, 
our target is the end of GCC 4.6 Stage1.

If your favorite benchmark significantly under-performs on Core 2 or 
Core i7 CPUs, don't hesitate asking us to take a look at it.

We appreciate Intel sponsoring this project.


Thank you,

-- 
Maxim Kuvyrkov
CodeSourcery
maxim@codesourcery.com
(650) 331-3385 x724