On Apr 22, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Hal Finkel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Okay, this is reasonable, but I'm still not sure it should be in a pragma 
> called 'vectorize'. This particular transformation can be applied (and more 
> often than not is applied) to scalar code. Strictly speaking it is an 
> optimization that exposes ILP, and has little to do with vectorization.

This is a good point. Maybe ILP would be a better name?

> 
> That having been said, the fact that the correctness model for this 
> 'widening' operation is similar (although not identical) to that for 
> vectorization, and thus implemented by the vectorizer, is not facet of the 
> implementation we should expose to the user. However, pragma widen is fine 
> with me too.

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