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Re: i386 vector min/max improvements
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:36:59PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Clever - but the high level description makes me wonder if this sort of
> thing should be happening somewhere outside of config/i386/? I've been
> watching the target-specific vector support get cleverer and cleverer
> lately, and I'm not a big fan of clever targets.
Probably.
The problem is that the vectorizer relies on the existance of
specific named patterns to do its job. If we were to move these
patterns to optabs.c, we'd additionally need some cooperation
there to let the vectorizer know it's safe to proceed anyway.
I'm not sure I'm quite that motivated just yet...
r~