llvm-project/polly
Michael Kruse 471a5e3388 Move computations out of constructors
It is common practice to keep constructors lightweight. The reasons
include:

- The vtable during the constructor's execution is set to the static
type of the object, not to the vtable of the derived class. That is,
method calls behave differently in constructors and ordinary methods.
This way it is possible to call unimplemented methods of abstract
classes, which usually results in a segmentation fault.

- If an exception is thrown in the constructor, the destructor is not
called, potentially leaking memory.

- Code in constructors cannot be called in a regular way, e.g. from
non-constructor methods of derived classes.

- Because it is common practice, people may not expect the constructor
to do more than initializing data and skip them when looking for bugs.

Not all of these are applicable to LLVM (e.g. exceptions are disabled).

This patch refactors out the computational work in the constructors of
Scop and IslAst into regular init functions and introduces static
create-functions as replacement. 

Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11491

Reviewers: grosser, jdoerfert
llvm-svn: 243677
2015-07-30 19:27:04 +00:00
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autoconf Enable ISL's small integer optimization 2015-06-25 20:47:35 +00:00
cmake Unify FOLDER property of Polly targets 2015-07-21 12:40:01 +00:00
include/polly Move computations out of constructors 2015-07-30 19:27:04 +00:00
lib Move computations out of constructors 2015-07-30 19:27:04 +00:00
test Do not detect scops that are delinearized to arrays with "undef" size 2015-07-29 13:52:05 +00:00
tools Do not compile GPU library with sanitizers 2015-07-28 12:51:23 +00:00
utils Rename 'scattering' to 'schedule' 2015-04-21 11:37:25 +00:00
www Mark a couple of items as completed 2015-07-14 10:52:58 +00:00
.arcconfig Added arcanist (arc) unit test support 2014-09-08 19:30:09 +00:00
.arclint Added arcanist linters and cleaned errors and warnings 2014-08-18 00:40:13 +00:00
.gitattributes gitattributes: .png and .txt are no text files 2013-07-28 09:05:20 +00:00
.gitignore Add git patch files to .gitignore 2015-06-23 20:55:01 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Unify FOLDER property of Polly targets 2015-07-21 12:40:01 +00:00
CREDITS.txt Add myself to the credits 2014-08-10 03:37:29 +00:00
LICENSE.txt Update the copyright credits -- Happy new year 2014! 2014-01-01 08:27:31 +00:00
Makefile Revert "Fix a bug introduced by r153739: We are not able to provide the correct" 2012-04-11 07:43:13 +00:00
Makefile.common.in 'chmod -x' on files that do not need the executable bits 2012-12-29 15:09:03 +00:00
Makefile.config.in Fix autotools build 2015-06-25 16:50:13 +00:00
README Trivial change to the README, mainly to test commit access. 2012-10-09 04:59:42 +00:00
configure Enable ISL's small integer optimization 2015-06-25 20:47:35 +00:00

README

Polly - Polyhedral optimizations for LLVM
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http://polly.llvm.org/

Polly uses a mathematical representation, the polyhedral model, to represent and
transform loops and other control flow structures. Using an abstract
representation it is possible to reason about transformations in a more general
way and to use highly optimized linear programming libraries to figure out the
optimal loop structure. These transformations can be used to do constant
propagation through arrays, remove dead loop iterations, optimize loops for
cache locality, optimize arrays, apply advanced automatic parallelization, drive
vectorization, or they can be used to do software pipelining.