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Optimising C for T3RAS

After lots of testing i found certain variances that can help in speeding up code. These are a few simple practices. Know your target. If the T3RAS core you’re compiling for contains hardware features like multiplier and barrel shifting, include it when compiling your code using -mattr=barrel,mul . Both instructions Read more…

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T3RAS LLVM Backend Features

The T3RAS backend in llvm is based on the microblaze 6.3 architecture set but without hardware support for floating points and without hardware division. The T3RAS backend contains 3 variants (T3RAS1T, T3RAS2T, T3RAS4T) which is described below. To list all variants and features of T3RAS, simply run: llvm-as < /dev/null Read more…