[LLVMdev] IR Passes and TargetTransformInfo: Straw Man

[Sean Silva]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, has anyone tried to optimize the pass ordering in some
> (quasi-)automated way? Naively, a genetic algorithm seems like a perfect
> fit for this.
>

This is the closest I've seen:
http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/evolving-faster-haskell-programs-now-with-llvm/


However, it deals with a "toy" example. Doing something similar over an
entire benchmark suite would be interesting (and it may find non-obvious,
highly-profitable interactions between passes that we aren't currently
exploiting).

-- Sean Silva
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