Commit ae26d57f authored by Keith Randall's avatar Keith Randall Committed by Keith Randall

cmd/compile: update SSA TODO file

Get rid of a bunch of stuff we've already done.

Change-Id: Ibae4be7535ddb58590a072a2390c5f3e948c2fd7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/109136Reviewed-by: 's avatarBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
parent 2083b5d6
This is a list of things that need to be worked on. It will hopefully
be complete soon.
Correctness
-----------
- Debugging info (check & fix as much as we can)
This is a list of possible improvements to the SSA pass of the compiler.
Optimizations (better compiled code)
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- Reduce register pressure in scheduler
- More strength reduction: multiply -> shift/add combos (Worth doing?)
- Add a value range propagation pass (for bounds elim & bitwidth reduction)
- Make dead store pass inter-block
- If there are a lot of MOVQ $0, ..., then load
0 into a register and use the register as the source instead.
- Allow arrays of length 1 (or longer, with all constant indexes?) to be SSAable.
- Allow large structs to be SSAable (issue 24416)
- Allow arrays of length >1 to be SSAable
- If strings are being passed around without being interpreted (ptr
and len fields being accessed) pass them in xmm registers?
Same for interfaces?
- Non-constant rotate detection.
- Do 0 <= x && x < n with one unsigned compare
- nil-check removal in indexed load/store case:
lea (%rdx,%rax,1),%rcx
test %al,(%rcx) // nil check
mov (%rdx,%rax,1),%cl // load to same address
- any pointer generated by unsafe arithmetic must be non-nil?
(Of course that may not be true in general, but it is for all uses
in the runtime, and we can play games with unsafe.)
......@@ -33,14 +21,4 @@ Optimizations (better compiler)
Regalloc
--------
- Make less arch-dependent
- Handle 2-address instructions
- Make liveness analysis non-quadratic
Future/other
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- Start another architecture (arm?)
- 64-bit ops on 32-bit machines
- Should we get rid of named types in favor of underlying types during SSA generation?
- Infrastructure for enabling/disabling/configuring passes
- Modify logging for at least pass=1, to be Warnl compatible
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