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diff --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 1457c985b65..9552fe701ac 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -206,6 +206,36 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> </div> + +<!--=========================================================================--> +<h3> +<a name="Polly">Polly</a> +</h3> + +<div> + + <p><a href="http://polly.llvm.org/">Polly</a> is an <em>experimental</em> + optimizer for data locality and parallelism. It currently provides high-level + loop optimizations and automatic parallelisation (using the OpenMP run time). + Work in the area of automatic SIMD and accelerator code generation was + started. + + <p>Within the LLVM 3.1 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Polly became an official LLVM project</li> + <li>Polly can be loaded directly into clang (Enabled by '-O3 -mllvm -polly' + )</li> + <li>An automatic scheduling optimizer (derived from <a + href="http://pluto-compiler.sourceforge.net/">Pluto</a>) was integrated. It + performs loop transformations to optimize for data-locality and parallelism. + The transformations include, but are not limited to interchange, fusion, + fission, skewing and tiling. + </li> + </ul> + +</div> + </div> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
