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Last updated 15 Nov 04
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Critical (correctness)
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x86 isel: should free up all fp reg tags when calling a helper.
And save FP and SSE insns across the helper.

iropt: reconsider precise exceptions

x86 guest: look at FP accuracy


Optimisation opportunities
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Improved isel for memcheck artefacts on x86 (generate neg ; sbbl)

Assess tt_fast miss rates 

improve stack-update pass

proper profiling machinery

do not CSE exprs :: Ity_Bit

x86 iselIntExpr_RMI: actually generate the M case if possible


JIT speedups
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Ensure incremental flatness throughout

Profile again with cachegrind/calltree

change IRTemp to 16 bits?


Integration
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Get rid of sloppy-malloc

Get rid of partial-loads-ok

Optimisation after first instrumentation rather than 2nd ?

disallow dirty helpers from writing SP/IP

write API doc, clarify IR semantics

make IR utils module

generic stack pointer identification at startup?

New memstack_k: old or new sp?