Altivec strangeness?

[Aldy Hernandez]

> That's no much shorter than
> const vector short shortones = (vector short int){1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1};
> globally defined.

sounds good.

> For a function which is called a few million times per second runtime
> it makes a lot of difference whether a constant vector is loaded

load from "shortones" then.  it will be less worse.

> I hope you don't mind if I fool a bit around with code generation
> now. :)

not at all!  be my guest.

and keep the bug reports coming.

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