[ACTIVITY] 3-7 November 2014

2014-11-09 Thread Kugan
== Progress == * Zero/sign extension elimination with widening types (TCWG-546 - 9/10) - benchmarked Spec2k and the improvements are very small - Coremark fared worse. Looked into the cases and relaxed some of the constraints. - Subsequent passes are also not optimizing some of the expected case

[Weekly] 03-07 NOV 2014

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Collison
== This week == * GCC Modularization Project (9/10) - Flattening header files - gimple-streamer.h, tree-streamer.h, lto-streamer.h - Additional updates based on review: - Created new header files to contain prototypes from .c files - Boostrapped changes - New

[ACTIVITY] 3 - 7 November 2014

2014-11-09 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
= Progress == * TCWG-544 - Investigate core mark performance with both at -O3 with LTO + PGO (6/10) Different IPA inline decisions happening between Linaro and trunk. No major differences in other IPA passes. Trunk Inlines crcu32 and not inlines crcu16. Inlining crcu16 decreases instruction count