Some thoughts about steerring commitee work

[Dorit Nuzman]

> H. J. Lu wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> We have about two dozen cases of packages that break when
> -ftree-vectorize is used.  I'm sure there are several more as we tend to
> discourage such bug reports.
>

If you could take the time to find the reduced testcases and file PRs for
these, that would be most appreciated.

thanks,
dorit

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