[cfe-dev] [OT?] real-world interest of the polly optimiser

[Philip Reames via cfe-dev]

To my knowledge, polly is not in use in any production setting.  It is 
used for research purposes, but I don't believe it has been 
productionized at this time.

Philip

On 05/19/2017 01:38 AM, René J.V. Bertin via cfe-dev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this isn't the best place. I've been looking for some information (understandable by the average user) about the real-world benefits of the polly optimiser, but have found only either very broad and vague claims or specialist research papers.
>
> What I'd like to get an idea of is what benefits Polly brings, under what conditions, for what cost and how (= any special compiler options needed?).
>
> Also, given I'm installing clang via MacPorts: does clang pick up Polly's presence automatically after I add the libpolly binary (i.e. port:llvm with the +polly install variant) or do I need to rebuild clang too?
>
> Thanks,
> René
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