Re: Loop fusion.

[Toon Moene <toon@moene.org>]

On 04/24/2018 09:18 AM, Richard Biener wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Toon Moene <toon@moene.org> wrote:

>> On 04/23/2018 01:00 PM, Richard Biener wrote:

>>> Note that while it looks "obvious" in the above source fragment the IL
>>> that is presented to optimizers may make things a lot less "low-hanging".
>>
>>
>> Well, the loops are generated by the front end, so I *assume* they are
>> basically the same ...
> 
> The issue will be boiler-plate code like duplicated loop header checks.
> That said, it's perfectly understandable that other Fortran compilers have
> high-level loop opts deeply embedded within their frontends...

I agree that this would be more easily handled in the Fortran front end. 
However, for that it would first have to get a (high level) basic block 
finder, because it has to be established that consecutive array 
expressions are part of the same basic block.

I discussed high (i.e., Fortran-) level basic blocks briefly in my 2007 
GCC Summit talk (http://moene.org/~toon/GCCSummit-2007.pdf, paragraph 
7), but I do not think anyone really worked on it.

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