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authorNate Begeman <natebegeman@mac.com>2005-09-06 15:30:48 +0000
committerNate Begeman <natebegeman@mac.com>2005-09-06 15:30:48 +0000
commit92cce90c66f9b231275db210f1df97efe21c2dd5 (patch)
treeed3dea2167de7b37cbf572adb9dc948fb43c1535
parentd401dff7966ca3ac644cddcda4f1e6d30074923e (diff)
Add note about future optimization noted in the ppc compiler writer's guide
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@23245 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
-rw-r--r--lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt4
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diff --git a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
index ffc4d0b4bc..c6c59560eb 100644
--- a/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt
@@ -101,3 +101,7 @@ off of the register to avoid the lis's. This is even more important in PIC
mode.
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+
+Implement Newton-Rhapson method for improving estimate instructions to the
+correct accuracy, and implementing divide as multiply by reciprocal when it has
+more than one use. Itanium will want this too.