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Re: "generic" vectorization?

From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,Falk Hueffner <falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:48:11 -0500
Subject: Re: "generic" vectorization?
References: <87k74auh6s.fsf@student.uni-tuebingen.de> <20040103001902.GE20995@redhat.com>

On Jan 2, 2004, at 19:19, Richard Henderson wrote:

Yes and yes.  It's a safe bet that 64-bit risc that doesn't have
it's own vector insn set will benefit.


Even for systems with vector instructions it will be useful.
For example logical operations will usually be done fastest
using regular registers. In essence optimized memmove
implementations use such "generic" vectorization.

-Geert

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