[Libre-soc-dev] daily kan-ban update 09nov2020

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 01:39 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:27 AM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > today:
> > spent most of the day working on the microarchitectural table generator,
> > ended up in C++ template hell while trying to get static dispatch to work
> > well, since it can easily run several times faster and avoids tons of
> small
> > allocations. I've decided to instead switch to using dynamic dispatch and
> > memory allocation for just about everything, lets hope that works out :(
>
> jacob it sounds like the rabbit-hole that you're exploring is getting
> deeper and deeper, and further and further away from providing any
> kind of useful results that are directly related either to the 3rd dec
> tapeout (23 days) or to SV or to Kazan development.
>
> also, what is it that you are working on, and why?
>

I'm working on https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523 because you
asked me to and because it's interesting. It's the program that generates
tables like the ones here:
https://libre-soc.org/3d_gpu/architecture/compared_to_register_renaming/

Jacob