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| author | Carter Tazio Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> | 2014-01-30 12:27:35 -0500 |
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| committer | Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> | 2014-02-19 16:32:35 -0600 |
| commit | 27fe12856a34488ea94291990238c37e5353d1a3 (patch) | |
| tree | f812dd3c559450b8ede311442e8d709666940a27 | |
| parent | 5c6ced556a989e7fccfa2d4adc6f6bbe538a8e6c (diff) | |
| download | haskell-27fe12856a34488ea94291990238c37e5353d1a3.tar.gz | |
add more information about the nature of support of prefetch primops on none x86/AMD64 -fasm platforms (and -fvia)
to the 7.8 release notes
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml index c60bacf019..75682467c5 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml @@ -554,8 +554,12 @@ guide the processor's caching decisions. </para> <para> - Currently, these are only supported with the LLVM - backend and x86/amd64 backends. + Currently, the primops get translated into + the associated hardware supported prefetch + instructions only with the LLVM backend and + x86/amd64 backends. On all other backends, + the prefetch primops are currently erased + at code generation time. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> |