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@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ could use the following improvements:
Graphs - It would be great to have gnuplot graphs to keep track of how the
tree is changing over time. We already gather a several statistics, it
- just neccesary to add the script-fu to gnuplotize it.
+ just necessary to add the script-fu to gnuplotize it.
Regression tests - We should run the regression tests in addition to the
program tests...
@@ -127,9 +127,6 @@ all the back-ends: CBE, llc, and lli.
-- Transform setjmp and longjmp calls to use the LLVM
- invoke mechanism.
-
- Add support for a volatile attribute on loads and stores
- Add a new conditional move instruction: X = select bool Cond, Y, Z
- Add support for platform independent prefetch support. The GCC prefetch project page
@@ -151,8 +148,9 @@ all the back-ends: CBE, llc, and lli.
would also then have to implement the reader for this index in
gccld.
-
- Improve the efficiency of the bytecode loader/writer, allow streaming lazy
- loading of functions from the bytecode (for use by the JIT, for example)
+ - Improve the efficiency of the bytecode loader/writer
+ - Extend the FunctionPassManager to use a ModuleProvider to stream functions
+ in on demand. This would improve the efficiency of the JIT.
- Rework the PassManager to be more flexible
- Some transformations and analyses only work on reducible flow graphs. It
would be nice to have a transformation which could be "required" by these passes
@@ -183,9 +181,9 @@ very rewarding.
Pointer and Alias Analysis
-We have a strong base for development of both pointer analysis based
-optimizations as well as pointer analyses themselves. It seems natural to want
-to take advantage of this...
+We have a strong base for development of both
+pointer analysis based optimizations as well as pointer analyses themselves. It
+seems natural to want to take advantage of this...
- Implement a flow-sensitive context-sensitive alias analysis algorithm
@@ -240,8 +238,8 @@ Ideas for profile guided transformations:
- A linear time or nearly so algorithm
- Implement a strength reduction pass
- Value range propagation pass
-
- Implement a tail recursion elimination pass
- Implement an unswitching pass
+
- Write a loop unroller, with a simple heuristic for when to unroll
@@ -254,7 +252,6 @@ Ideas for profile guided transformations:
- Implement a global register allocator
- Implement a better instruction selector
-
- Implement a static compiler in addition to the JIT (easy project)
- Implement support for the "switch" instruction without requiring the
lower-switches pass.
@@ -280,6 +277,6 @@ Ideas for profile guided transformations:
Chris Lattner
-Last modified: Wed Jun 25 09:30:27 CDT 2003
+Last modified: Wed Oct 1 16:48:54 CDT 2003