> I told about importance of early access to machines based on new > Itanium chip (Montecito) and documentation for gcc developers trying > to improve gcc for Itanium. > > As for Mark Davis remark about rewriting RTL optimizations, I told > that it can not be done easily.
HUH? An example of something which can be rewritten easy and make an improvement on IA64 is the ifcvt pass which can make more use of ia64's predicates. -- Pinski