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author | Nadav Rotem <nadav.rotem@intel.com> | 2011-12-20 08:02:50 +0000 |
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committer | Nadav Rotem <nadav.rotem@intel.com> | 2011-12-20 08:02:50 +0000 |
commit | 7559766c63e4d94252d7ec3312ca7fff97fcf16e (patch) | |
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Add a few lines to the release notes:
1. pointer-vector
2. type legalizer changes and vector-select
3. X86 ISA changes.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@146964 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 608a1f354b..7dd0b8d550 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <ul> <li>IR support for half float</li> + <li>IR support for vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li> <li>....</li> </ul> </div> @@ -333,6 +334,14 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <div> +<p>We have changed the way that the Type Legalizer legalizes vectors. + The type legalizer now attempts to promote integer elements. + This enabled the implementation of vector-select. + Additionally, we see a performance boost on workloads which use vectors of chars and shorts, since they are now promoted + to 32-bit types, which are better supported by the SIMD instruction set. + Floating point types are still widened as before.</p> + + <p>We have put a significant amount of work into the code generator infrastructure, which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run faster:</p> @@ -355,6 +364,8 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <p>New features and major changes in the X86 target include:</p> <ul> + <li>Bug fixes and improved support for AVX1</li> + <li>Support for AVX2 (still incomplete at this point)</li> <li>....</li> </ul> |