From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA32174; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:18:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA32078 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:18:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (fichte.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.156]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7NCIkv27529 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:18:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bach.ai.univie.ac.at (markus@bach.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.139]) by fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id OAA01480; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:18:41 +0200 Received: (from markus@localhost) by bach.ai.univie.ac.at (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) id g7NCIfh3016891; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:18:41 +0200 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:18:41 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: OCAML Cc: Pal-Kristian Engstad Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Pointers needed for optimization problem. Message-ID: <20020823121841.GA16746@bach.ai.univie.ac.at> Mail-Followup-To: OCAML , Pal-Kristian Engstad References: <200208211933.21915.engstad@naughtydog.com> <20020823134607.A30889@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020823134607.A30889@pauillac.inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > Now, this is fairly trivial to do, but if you have an architecture > > with SIMD vector floating point registers and opcodes, a whole range > > of new interesting optimizations can be done. > > So, what I am looking for is basically pointers to literature that deal with > > issues like these. > > What you're after is traditionally called "instruction selection". > A Google search on "SIMD instruction selection" gives some relevant > papers. (Follow the PDF links only :-) > > Other sources of potential information: For optimal instruction selection, you might want to consider ocamlburg, which you can find here: http://www.cminusminus.org/tools.html I don't know how useful it generally is for exploiting super-scalar features, but it may be in some cases. Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners