[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[Chris Lattner]

Changes in directory llvm/docs:

ReleaseNotes.html updated: 1.143 -> 1.144

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Log message:

Minor additions and cleanups


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Diffs of the changes:  (+10 -9)

Index: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
diff -u llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.143 llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.144
--- llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.143	Wed Mar 10 15:43:47 2004
+++ llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html	Wed Mar 10 18:50:54 2004
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 <ol>
 <li><a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html">A new LLVM source-level debugger has been started.</a></li>
 <li>LLVM 1.2 encodes bytecode files for large programs in 10-30% less space.</li>
-<li>LLVM can now feed profile information back into optimizers for Profile Guided Optimization, and includes a simple basic block reordering pass.</li>
+<li>LLVM can now feed profile information back into optimizers for Profile Guided Optimization, includes a simple basic block reordering pass, and supports edge profiling as well as function and block-level profiling.</li>
 <li>The LLVM JIT lazily initializes global variables, reducing startup time for programs with lots of globals (like C++ programs).</li>
 
 <li>The build and installation infrastructure in this release is dramatically
@@ -109,14 +109,14 @@
 href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR203">RPM package generation</a>.</li>
 
 <li>The "tblgen" tool is <a href="TableGenFundamentals.html">now documented</a>.</li>
-<li>The LLVM code generator got a multitude of improvements:
+<li>The target-independent code generator got several improvements:
 <ul>
-<li>It can now fold spill code into instructions on targets that support it.</li>
-<li>A generic machine code spiller/rewriter was added. It provides an API for
-global register allocators to eliminate virtual registers and add the
-appropriate spill code.</li>
-<li>The represenation of machine basic blocks got cleaned up and improved to
-allow easier development and more efficient implementation.</li>
+  <li>It can now fold spill code into instructions (on targets that support it).</li>
+  <li>A generic machine code spiller/rewriter was added. It provides an API for
+      global register allocators to eliminate virtual registers and add the
+      appropriate spill code.</li>
+  <li>The represenation of machine code basic blocks is more efficient and has
+      an easier to use interface.</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR253">LLVM now no longer depends on the boost library</a>.</li>
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
 tool.  You can activate it with "<tt>llc -march=c foo.bc -o foo.c</tt>".</li>
 <li>LLVM includes a new interprocedural optimization that marks global variables
 "constant" when they are provably never written to.</li>
+<li>LLVM now includes a new interprocedural optimization that converts small "by reference" arguments to "by value" arguments, which is often improve the performance of C++ programs substantially.</li>
 </ol>
 
 
@@ -625,7 +626,7 @@
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   <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
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