[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/7] radeon/llvm: enable LICM and DCE pass

[Christian König]

Am 05.03.2013 18:32, schrieb Vincent Lejeune:
> LICM stands for Loop Invariant Code Motion.
> Instructions that does not depend of loop index are moved outside of loop body.
> (This solves one of llvm generated code Vadim pointed in another thread)
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> DCE is DeadCodeElimination...I don't know the difference between "classic" DCE and aggressive DCE though.

If I understand it correctly the DCE pass just removes the trivial dead 
instructions, e.g. not used and doesn't have a side effect. While the 
aggressive DCE pass goes a bit more into the depth. For example imagine 
a loop with an unused variable incremented, the increment depends on 
itself, but it's completely useless...

Christian.

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> ----- Mail original -----
>> De : Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>
>> À : Christian König <deathsimple at vodafone.de>
>> Cc : mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Envoyé le : Mardi 5 mars 2013 18h20
>> Objet : Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/7] radeon/llvm: enable LICM and DCE pass
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>> On Die, 2013-03-05 at 15:27 +0100, Christian König wrote:
>>>   From: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
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>>>   Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>> This could use a little more information, e.g.: What are LICM and DCE?
>> Why is it a good idea to enable them?
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