[llvm-dev] Definitive list of optimisations at each optimisation level

[Ryan Taylor via llvm-dev]

Have u looked in the pass manager?

On Jun 24, 2017 10:10 AM, "Martin J. O'Riordan via llvm-dev" <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> I am often asked what optimisations “our” compiler performs at each
> level.  But “our” compiler is actually CLang/LLVM which we have retargeted
> to our proprietary target.
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> Most of the work we do is in maintaining our target specific backend.
> Certainly there are optimisations that we do to take best advantage of our
> instruction set during lowering and instruction selection, and we have also
> added a couple of additional passes which manipulate the IR in advance of
> lowering to better shape it for our target.
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> But in practice the vast majority of optimisations are contributed by the
> continuously evolving and excellent LLVM target independent passes, and
> have little or nothing to do with the work we do in our backend - though it
> is obviously directed/tuned by the various target call-backs and the target
> cost models.
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> Is there a “one stop shop” list of the optimisation passes that LLVM
> performs, and identification of which are enabled by default for each of
> the 4 standard optimisation levels ‘-O0’ thru ‘-O3’?
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> The reason that I ask, is that I really don’t have an honest or informed
> answer that I can provide to people when they ask, and I haven’t found a
> definitive statement of this in the LLVM documentation that I could refer
> them to.
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> Thanks,
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>             MartinO
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