Changes to the PowerPC Target
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- During this release ...
+There are numerous improvements to the PowerPC target in this release:
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+* Shrink wrapping optimization has been enabled for PowerPC Little Endian
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+* Direct move instructions are used when converting scalars to vectors
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+* Thread Sanitizer (TSAN) is now supported for PowerPC
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+* New MI peephole pass to clean up redundand XXPERMDI instructions
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+* Add branch hints to highly biased branch instructions (code reaching
+ unreachable terminators and exceptional control flow consructs)
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+* Promote boolean return values to integer to prevent excessive usage of
+ condition registers
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+* Additional vector APIs for vector comparisons and vector merges have been
+ added to altivec.h
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+* Many bugs have been identified and fixed
Changes to the X86 Target