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The new interfaces provide getters and setters for the weight information about the branches of BranchOpInterface and RegionBranchOpInterface operations. These interfaces are done the same way as LLVM dialect's BranchWeightOpInterface. The plan is to produce this information in Flang, e.g. mark most probably "cold" code as such and allow LLVM to order basic blocks accordingly. An example of such a code is copy loops generated for arrays repacking - we can mark it as "cold" assuming that the copy will not happen dynamically. If the copy actually happens the overhead of the copy is probably high enough so that we may not care about the little overhead of jumping to the "cold" code and fetching it.
Flang
Flang is a ground-up implementation of a Fortran front end written in modern C++. It started off as the f18 project (https://github.com/flang-compiler/f18) with an aim to replace the previous flang project (https://github.com/flang-compiler/flang) and address its various deficiencies. F18 was subsequently accepted into the LLVM project and rechristened as Flang.
Please note that flang is not ready yet for production usage.
Getting Started
Read more about flang in the docs directory. Start with the compiler overview.
To better understand Fortran as a language and the specific grammar accepted by flang, read Fortran For C Programmers and flang's specifications of the Fortran grammar and the OpenMP grammar.
Treatment of language extensions is covered in this document.
To understand the compilers handling of intrinsics, see the discussion of intrinsics.
To understand how a flang program communicates with libraries at runtime, see the discussion of runtime descriptors.
If you're interested in contributing to the compiler, read the style guide and also review how flang uses modern C++ features.
If you are interested in writing new documentation, follow LLVM's Markdown style guide.
Consult the Getting Started with Flang for information on building and running flang.