RVM

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: 1000
• Component/s: Compiler: Optimizing
• Labels:

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Our current loop unroller is very simple and possibly broken. In particular it doesn't use loop information present in annotated LST nodes. We should look to implement a better loop unroller. Some related papers are:

Optimized Unrolling of Nested Loops. Vivek Sarkar. ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), May, 2000.
Optimized Unrolling of Nested Loops. Vivek Sarkar. International Journal on Parallel Programming 29(5), pps. 545-581, October 2001.

• Assignee:

  Unassigned

  Reporter:

  Ian Rogers

• Created:

  16/Mar/08 3:59 PM

  Updated:

  22/Feb/09 4:52 PM