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 Changes to the Arm Targets
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+During this release the AArch64 target has:
+
+ * Made instruction fusion more aggressive, resulting in speedups
+   for code making use of AArch64 AES instructions. AES fusion has been
+   enabled for most Cortex-A cores and the AArch64MacroFusion pass was moved
+   to the generic MacroFusion pass.
+ * Added preferred function alignments for most Cortex-A cores.
+
 During this release the ARM target has:
 
 * Improved mixed ARM/Thumb code generation. Some cases in which wrong