[LLVMdev] [PATCH] Split LoopUnroll pass into mechanism and policy

[Dan Gohman]

On May 6, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Devang Patel wrote:

> Dan,
>
> On May 6, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Dan Gohman wrote:
>
>> This should still make it easy to write new unrolling passes with
>> custom heuristics, but it would also be more flexible for passes to
>> do unrolling in combination with other transformations.
>
> Do you mean unrolling during other transformation or before/after
> other transformation ? Do you have specific example in mind ?

Another example is the combined unroll and prefetch technique
described in the AMD 5.5

Dan