[llvm-dev] X86 backend code ownership

[Sanjay Patel via llvm-dev]

+1 - especially since I think Craig convinced Intel that LLVM isn't just a
hobby project for him. :)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:08 AM, Andrea Di Biagio via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Fwiw, I also think that Craig would be a good code owner. So, my +1 goes
> to him :-)
>
> @Nadav, thanks again for all your kind help and contributions to the x86
> backend!
>
> -Andrea
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Craig Topper via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the support Nadav, Zvi, Chandler, Renato, and anyone else I
>> missed.
>>
>> Quetin, to maybe address your concerns. My focus lately has been fixing
>> inconsistency in instruction selection behavior between the older AVX
>> instruction encodings and the new AVX512 encodings. I've also been trying
>> to fix cases where concepts haven't been extended to wider vectors yet. For
>> instance, the instcombine handling of x86 shift intrinsics. I've also been
>> trying to remove AVX512 intrinsics for things that can be represented with
>> native IR or where we can use a legacy instrinsic and only need a masking
>> IR select instruction to support AVX512.
>>
>> ~Craig
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Quentin Colombet via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Copy/pasting my concerns here to ease the reading:
>>> Craig is indeed one of the main contributor of the X86 backend (in terms
>>> of commits). My concern though is that Craig’s focus is on the assembly
>>> (TableGen classes clean-up and such) and not so much on CodeGen (ISel and
>>> various X86-specific passes) as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> > On Nov 9, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Nadav Rotem via llvm-dev <
>>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I'd like to continue the discussion on the X86 backend ownership that
>>> started here [1].  I think that Craig Topper would be a great code owner.
>>> Several people replied to the email with +1s. Quentin had some concerns.
>>> Let's continue the discussion.
>>> >
>>> > -Nadav
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [1] - http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-November/10693
>>> 1.html.
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