Author: fhahn Date: Wed Aug 23 02:12:41 2017 New Revision: 311539 URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=311539&view=rev Log: [RelNotes,AArch64] Mention improved instruction fusion and fun alignment.
Reviewers: t.p.northover, hans, kristof.beyls Reviewed By: hans Subscribers: aemerson, rengolin, llvm-commits Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36965 Modified: llvm/branches/release_50/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Modified: llvm/branches/release_50/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_50/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?rev=311539&r1=311538&r2=311539&view=diff ============================================================================== --- llvm/branches/release_50/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (original) +++ llvm/branches/release_50/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Wed Aug 23 02:12:41 2017 @@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ Changes to the LLVM IR Changes to the Arm Targets -------------------------- +During this release the AArch64 target has: + +* Made instruction fusion more aggressive, resulting in speedups + for code making use of AArch64 AES instructions. AES fusion has been + enabled for most Cortex-A cores and the AArch64MacroFusion pass was moved + to the generic MacroFusion pass. +* Added preferred function alignments for most Cortex-A cores. + During this release the ARM target has: * Improved mixed ARM/Thumb code generation. Some cases in which wrong _______________________________________________ llvm-branch-commits mailing list llvm-branch-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-branch-commits