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| author | Clement Courbet <courbet@google.com> | 2018-04-04 08:13:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Clement Courbet <courbet@google.com> | 2018-04-04 08:13:32 +0000 |
| commit | 780c045964bcf42e415db55b531492a3e1821fc2 (patch) | |
| tree | db249077706fdf15195be6874167e32f523a88da /docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | |
| parent | 0376d42275ea9cb1159e295990130e8fa543eb8d (diff) | |
Add llvm-exegesis tool.
Summary:
[llvm-exegesis][RFC] Automatic Measurement of Instruction Latency/Uops
This is the code corresponding to the RFC "llvm-exegesis Automatic Measurement of Instruction Latency/Uops".
The RFC is available on the LLVM mailing lists as well as the following document
for easier reading:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QidaJMJUyQdRrFKD66vE1_N55whe0coQ3h1GpFzz27M/edit?usp=sharing
Subscribers: mgorny, gchatelet, orwant, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44519
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@329156 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 7bd8223af46..e1b1da556ac 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release * Symbols starting with ``?`` are no longer mangled by LLVM when using the Windows ``x`` or ``w`` IR mangling schemes. +* A new tool named :doc:`llvm-exegesis <CommandGuide/llvm-exegesis>` has been + added. :program:`llvm-exegesis` automatically measures instruction scheduling + properties (latency/uops) and provides a principled way to edit scheduling + models. + * A new tool named :doc:`llvm-mca <CommandGuide/llvm-mca>` has been added. :program:`llvm-mca` is a static performance analysis tool that uses information available in LLVM to statically predict the performance of |