Re: Sparse 0.5.1 RC5 released.

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Hi Luc,

On 13 August 2017 at 16:07, Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
> <mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's also interesting to note that with the new SSA construction, there is no
>>> slowdown (0.064s here but too small to be measured accurately).
>>> This confirms me that the single-store shortcut was very much needed for
>>> performance (not simply because it's faster than the general case but that
>>> it creates much less intermediate code) but it created bad code ...
>>>
>>
>> I wonder if it is worth doing these changes - instead we should
>> probably look at your new SSA construction approach.
>
> It was of course what I was thinking when I wrote this note.
>
> I've put together the minimal changes for having this on top
> of the current master:
>     git://github.com/lucvoo/sparse.git sssa-mini
>
> Since yesterday I already gave it a good more testing and
> everything good so far.
>

That's great. I would recommend getting the current release out by
undoing the single store shortcut change - and then immediately after
that your SSA construction should become the main focus as it will
help avoid wasting time on other issues.

In any case I will give your changes a try in my repository and let
you know if I face any issues.

Regards
Dibyendu
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