[ANNOUNCE] Linaro QEMU 2012.08 released

2012-08-16 Thread Peter Maydell
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2012.08. Linaro QEMU 2012.08 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. There are no major changes in this

Re: PGO and LTO session preparation

2012-08-16 Thread Mans Rullgard
On 15 August 2012 22:38, Mans Rullgard mans.rullg...@linaro.org wrote: On 15 August 2012 17:17, Matthew Gretton-Dann matthew.gretton-d...@linaro.org wrote: The performance of PGO on 'a popular embedded benchmark' is 14% improvement, LTO is 7%. Don't know both together, or SPEC. On 'a

[ACTIVITY] Aug 13 - Aug 17

2012-08-16 Thread Matthew Gretton-Dann
== Progress == * Out of office Friday 17 * Attended Virtual Connect sessions * Vectorization * Ran PGO/LTO session * Lurked on AArch64/OpenEmbedded and Dalvik Performance sessions * Did the 2012.08 release of the Toolchain * Ran into infrastructure problems with armv5 builds *

Re: PGO and LTO session preparation

2012-08-16 Thread Mans Rullgard
On 16 August 2012 13:04, Mans Rullgard mans.rullg...@linaro.org wrote: On 15 August 2012 22:38, Mans Rullgard mans.rullg...@linaro.org wrote: On 15 August 2012 17:17, Matthew Gretton-Dann matthew.gretton-d...@linaro.org wrote: The performance of PGO on 'a popular embedded benchmark' is 14%

[ACTIVITY] Aug 13-Aug 17

2012-08-16 Thread Christophe Lyon
== Progress == * Out of office Friday 17 * Attended Virtual Connect sessions: * Vectorization * PGO/LTO: provided benchmarking results on Webkit computed in ST last year. * At last managed to have bzr working * Prepared a patch for constant vec permute operation for the vext instruction

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 4.7 and 4.6 2012.08 released

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Hope
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.08 release of both Linaro GCC 4.7 and Linaro GCC 4.6. Linaro GCC 4.7 2012.08 is the fifth release in the 4.7 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.7.1+svn189992 release, it includes many ARM-focused performance improvements and bug