it came up with a couple that in some cases reduce microcode lines by up to 30%
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reduce microcode lines by up to 30%
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Helped: Providing original compiler docs and using it as a golden reference for comparison.
… Not only does this generate microcode it also has to generate some Verilog code that loads and runs the microcode as well as run simulations in Verilator to confirm functionality. I asked it to come up with some new optimizations that the original compiler doesn't have and it came up with a couple that in some cases reduce microcode lines by up to 30% (less microcode in this machine means more performant). These are ideas that Claude didn't come up with when it was working on the original compiler back in the 4.6/4.8 era(and I recall prompting it several times asking it if there might be other optimizations we could perform). …