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authorHans Wennborg <hans@chromium.org>2020-02-10 13:06:48 +0100
committerHans Wennborg <hans@chromium.org>2020-02-10 13:06:48 +0100
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PowerPC release notes
By Anil Mahmud.
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@@ -144,7 +144,29 @@ Changes to the MIPS Target
Changes to the PowerPC Target
-----------------------------
- During this release ...
+Optimization:
+
+ * Improved register pressure estimates in the loop vectorizer based on type
+ * Improved the PowerPC cost model for the vectorizer
+ * Enabled vectorization of math routines on PowerPC using MASSV (Mathematical Acceleration SubSystem) library
+
+compiler-rt:
+
+ * Added/improved conversion functions from IBM long double to 128-bit integers
+
+Codegen:
+
+ * Optimized memory access instructions in loops (pertaining to update-form instructions and address computation)
+ * Added options to disable hoisting instructions to hotter blocks based on statically or profile-based block hotness estimates
+ * Code generation improvements (particularly with floating point and vector code as well as handling condition registers)
+ * Various infrastructural improvements, code refactoring, and bug fixes
+ * Optimized handling of control flow based on multiple comparison of same values
+
+Tools:
+
+ * llvm-readobj supports displaying file header, section headers, symbol table and relocation entries for XCOFF object files
+ * llvm-objdump supports disassembling physical sections for XCOFF object files
+
Changes to the X86 Target
-------------------------
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