Some thoughts about steerring commitee work

[Vladimir N. Makarov]

H. J. Lu wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:21:53PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
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>>This is hardly a new thought, but I believe that for the i386 gcc is
>>handicapped by reload.  No matter how smart we are before reload, it
>>just take one poor decision by reload in an inner loop and we've lost
>>all the gains.  Reload has enormous complexities which are mostly
>>irrelevant for the i386.  And I think that the idea of doing register
>>allocation separately from spill code generation does not make sense
>>on the i386.
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>Why don't we turn on vectorizer at -O3 or even -O2, depending on
>ISA? I added -ftree-vectorize to BOOT_CFLAGS on x86-64. According to
>-ftree-vectorizer-verbose=1, there are 82 loops vectorized in
>gcc source. There are no regressions. There are not much changes
>in bootstrap time as well as "make check" time.
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A mount ago I did some measurements of the effect of the vectorizer for 
Core2 in 64-bit mode.  Unfortunately, I saw small improvement (as I 
remember less than 1% for SPECInt2000).

Vectorizer is a big a project and may be we will see more improvements 
in future. They promissed implement SLP two years ago and now I see it 
happens.  It would be nice  to see it not only in loops.
 
Vlad