[ACTIVITY] report week 50

2011-12-15 Thread Peter Maydell
[short week, three days] RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned|| Estimate || Actual || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup|| 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-01-17 |||| ||initial

[ACTIVITY] December 11-15

2011-12-15 Thread Ira Rosen
Hi, After learning how to control MEM_ALIGN and, therefore, alignment hints from the vectorizer, I was able to generate 64-bit hints (with the help of Ramana's patches). I saw a 16% improvement on a benchmark with stack variables, for which we now force alignment to 64 bits and create alignment hi

[ACTIVITY] w50

2011-12-15 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi, * Finished an across-compilers report for benchmarks over the latest in FSF and Linaro series. Will start storing results in the linaro-toolchain-benchmarks bzr repository. * Looking closer at eembc results, especially regressions between gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.6. Did runs with gcc-linaro-4.4 with