October 06, 2004
Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference Centre
Markham, ON
Associated with CASCON 2004
(http://www.cas.ibm.com/cascon)
Widening
Ian McIntosh - IBM Toronto Lab
The new Widening optimization in VAC++ v7 and xlf 9.1 can sometimes replace
separate instructions operating on bytes, halfwords or words with merged
instructions handling a register width or a longer byte string at a time.
Presentation Slides.