[activity] 07 - 11 Sep 2015

[Prathamesh Kulkarni]

== This week ==

* TCWG-80 (1/10)
- PRE and dead-store elimination ipa pass (WIP upstream) already
handles optimization

* TCWG-120 (2/10)
- Investigating 3 possible approaches:
a) fold arm_andsi3_insn/arm_cmpsi_insn to
zeroextractsi_compare0_scratch/andsi3_compare0_scratch
b) Undo cse in test conditions, and modify arm_rtx_costs to fold
arm_andsi3_insn/arm_cmpsi_insn to
zeroextractsi_compare0_scratch/andsi3_compare0_scratch
c) Expand directly to zeroextractsi_compare0_scratch/andsi3_compare0_scratch
- Not sure whether the generated assembly is better (in terms of
speed) than with trunk.
asm diff at -O1: http://pastebin.com/yXBHHkhM

* TCWG-72 (2/10)
- Rebased Kugan's patch

* TCWG-299 (3/10)
- Simple workaround for PR65837 - configure gcc with --with-fpu=neon
- Firefox trunk doesn't build with gcc for arm, using apt-get source firefox
- LTO build fails with out-of-memory on my laptop in qemu-arm chroot

* TCWG-319 (1/10)
- Benchmarking setup with Bernie on Juno for running SPEC.
- SPEC Runs without error on Juno-{a53,a57} and APM

* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings

== Next Week ==
- Continue with TCWG-120, TCWG-72, TCWG-319