From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:23:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add a note about viterbi
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=578d2df84b7243a448f9631e88f76880590519f0;p=oota-llvm.git

add a note about viterbi


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@31612 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/lib/Target/README.txt b/lib/Target/README.txt
index 19bd9d137d5..3e5dbf6172d 100644
--- a/lib/Target/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/README.txt
@@ -354,3 +354,9 @@ Instcombine misses several of these cases (see the testcase in the patch):
 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-10/msg01519.html
 
 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+viterbi speeds up *significantly* if the various "history" related copy loops
+are turned into memcpy calls at the source level.  We need a "loops to memcpy"
+pass.
+
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//