From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:57:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: more notes
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdb0e4caff8fea9e9065f6483c4c6dc44a61f331;p=oota-llvm.git

more notes


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@57427 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index 2355b382cc6..057d235147c 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.3.</p>
  
  <!-- for announcement email:
     mention dev mtg
-    Xcode 3.1.1?
+    Xcode 3.1 and 3.1.1.
   -->
 
 <!--=========================================================================-->
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.3.</p>
 <p>The LLVM IR generated by llvm-gcc now doesn't name instructions.  Use the
    instnamer pass if you want them.</p>
 
-
+<li>LoadVN and GCSE are completely gone.</li>
 
 
 <p>LLVM API Changes:</p>
@@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ converted to strings using <tt>llvm::GetConstantStringInfo</tt> defined via
 <li>API change: BinaryOperator::create -> Create (CmpInst, CastInst too)</li>
 <li>Various header files like "llvm/ADT/iterator" were given a .h suffix.
     Change your code to #include "llvm/ADT/iterator.h" instead.</li>
+    
 </ul>
+
 </div>
 
 <!--=========================================================================-->
@@ -238,10 +240,12 @@ for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p>
 </p>
 
 <ul>
+<li>vector shifts in the IR: no codegen support yet</li>
 <li>use diet patch landed: saved 15% IR memory footprint</li>
 <li>LLVM IR now directly represents "common" linkage, instead of
     representing it as a form of weak linkage.</li>
 <li>DebugInfoBuilder</li>
+<li>.ll printing format change: %3 = add i32 4, 2</li>
 <li>...</li>
 </ul>
   
@@ -269,14 +273,13 @@ and rewrote ADCE to be simpler faster, and not need control dependence.</li>
 
 <li>SparsePropagation framework for lattice-based dataflow solvers.</li>
 
-<li>LoadVN and GCSE finally bit the dust?</li>
-
-<li>Tail duplication was is removed from the standard optimizer sequence.</li>
+<li>Tail duplication was removed from the standard optimizer sequence.</li>
 
 <li>Various helper functions (ComputeMaskedBits, ComputeNumSignBits, etc) were
 pulled out of instcombine and put into a new ValueTracking.h file, where they
 can be reused by other passes.</li>
 
+<li>MarkModRef etc</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -293,7 +296,10 @@ which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run
 faster:</p>
 
 <ul>
-<li>2-addr pass can now remat trivial insts to avoid a copy.</li>
+<li>asm writers split out to their own library to avoid JITs having to link
+ them in.</li>
+<li>Big asm writer refactoring + TargetAsmInfo</li>
+<li>2-addr pass and coalescer can now remat trivial insts to avoid a copy.</li>
 <li>spiller to commute instructions in order to fold a reload</li>
 <li>Stack slot coloring?</li>
 <li>Live intervals renumbering?  Is this useful to external people?</li>
@@ -337,6 +343,7 @@ faster:</p>
 </p>
 
 <ul>
+<li>MIPS floating point support?</li>
 <li>....</li>
 </ul>
   
@@ -355,6 +362,7 @@ faster:</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li>raw_ostream + formatting</li>
+<li>Recycler + pool allocation stuff?</li>
 <li>...</li>
 </ul>