serge-sans-paille 346de9b672 Fix several issues with compiler extensions
- Update documentation now that the move to monorepo has been made
- Do not tie compiler extension testing to LLVM_BUILD_EXAMPLES
- No need to specify LLVM libraries for plugins
- Add NO_MODULE option to match Polly specific requirements (i.e. building the
  module *and* linking it statically)
- Issue a warning when building the compiler extension with
  LLVM_BYE_LINK_INTO_TOOLS=ON, as it modifies the behavior of clang, which only
  makes sense for testing purpose.

Still mark llvm/test/Feature/load_extension.ll as XFAIL because of a
ManagedStatic dependency that's going to be fixed in a seperate commit.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72327
2020-01-10 10:10:20 +01:00
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Polly - Polyhedral optimizations for LLVM
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http://polly.llvm.org/

Polly uses a mathematical representation, the polyhedral model, to represent and
transform loops and other control flow structures. Using an abstract
representation it is possible to reason about transformations in a more general
way and to use highly optimized linear programming libraries to figure out the
optimal loop structure. These transformations can be used to do constant
propagation through arrays, remove dead loop iterations, optimize loops for
cache locality, optimize arrays, apply advanced automatic parallelization, drive
vectorization, or they can be used to do software pipelining.