Re: NEON intrinsics vs. assembly code

2011-04-21 Thread Jim Huang
On 21 April 2011 23:38, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Michael mentioned that some users reported seeing better preformance from > RVCT using arm_neon.h then they did when coding directly in assembler. > He suggested we try the same thing for GCC.  Here's an experiment using > the example that Jim Hua

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2011-04-21 Thread David Gilbert
== String and Memory routines == * Profiled denbench with perf and produced a set of stats to show which programs spent how much time in libc and how much time was spent in each routine.While some of the benchmarks are good (like aes) and spend almost no time in libc some of the othe

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2011-04-21 Thread Revital Eres
Hello, Submitted the following patches to GCC trunk: [1] Avoid unfreed memory when SMS fails (committed to trunk GCC) - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01204.html [2] Free sccs field (committed to trunk GCC)- http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg01205.html [3] New flag to app

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2011-04-21 Thread Ulrich Weigand
== GDB == * Created Linaro GDB 7.2-2011.04-0 release. * Committed patch to fix accessing "fpscr" register to Linaro GDB. * Failure to disable address space randomization (bug #616001) has been fixed in the kernel; closed the Linaro GDB bug. == GCC == * Ongoing analysis of bug #759409 (

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2011-04-21 Thread Peter Maydell
RAG: Red: Amber: Green: another monthly qemu-linaro release out on schedule Current Milestones: | Planned| Estimate | Actual | qemu-linaro 2011-04 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | Historical Milestones: finish qemu-cont-integration | 2011-01

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2011-04-21 Thread Ken Werner
Hi, libunwind: * added initial support for resuming at a certain stack frame * posted unw_resume support plus some some testsuite fixes on the ml * there are still some issues left if signal handlers/frames are involved Note: Friday is a public holiday. Regards Ken __

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2011-04-21 Thread Richard Sandiford
== This week == * Iterated with upstream on some of the vectorisation patches. I think only half a patch (the ARM implementation of array_mode_supported_p) is still pending review; everything else has been approved. * Backported the vldN and vstN intrinsics to Linaro 4.5. * Finished off the

NEON intrinsics vs. assembly code

2011-04-21 Thread Richard Sandiford
Michael mentioned that some users reported seeing better preformance from RVCT using arm_neon.h then they did when coding directly in assembler. He suggested we try the same thing for GCC. Here's an experiment using the example that Jim Huang posted to the dev list recently: https://wiki.lina

Linaro QEMU 2011.04-1 released

2011-04-21 Thread Peter Maydell
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.04-1. Linaro QEMU 2011.04-1 is the third release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) qemu, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. Interesting changes include: - Compiling for