[LLVMdev] Performance regression on ARM

[Anton Korobeynikov]

I also thought about intrinsic, however I decided not to go this way
mostly due to possible issues with ABI - it's much better to deal with
them into frontend, than in the backend. However, I'm not opposed to
this solution.

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some patch which shows this approach (and the whole problem) is attached :)
>
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to add an intrinsic. LLVM already
> deals quite happily with emitting compiler-rt calls having different
> calling conventions (& names -- it's entirely possible ARM will add an
> __aeabi_mul*c3 for example). It seems a bit nasty to make Clang
> understand all that too, unless we have to.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tim.



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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University