[LLVMdev] Metadata

[David Greene]

On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:40:09 Chris Lattner wrote:

> > I would really rather not have to specify the entirely redundant !0. 
> > Just the fact that the instruction has metadata with index/name
> > "nontemporal" should be enough.
>
> Why?  These are uniqued anyway, it won't matter for performance and
> "!nontermporal !0" is not substantially worse than "!nontermporal".  I'd
> rather keep the metadata model simple than optimize it for nullary
> metadata.

It just seems wordy, but I don't have a big issue with it if it makes other 
things simpler.

                                                      -Dave