Re: sparc object hackery and Bliss techniques?

tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:
>One of the optimisation that only appears to be used by the Bliss-11
>compiler is to determine whether code should be placed before or after the
>loop out which it was being moved. They, Wulf et al, described these as
>alpha- and beta- code motion; as to which one was which I don't remember


Alpha motion: moving code from within the loop to before the loop
(actually, applies to other control structures such as alternations)


Omega motion: moving code from within the structure to after the structure


Rho motion: "rotating" the loop, ie moving code from late in one
iteration to early in the next, or vice versa.


A great book, by the way.
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