Hello,
> >As we also only vectorize innermost loops I believe doing a
> >complete unrolling pass early will help in general (I pushed
> >for this some time ago).
> >
> >Thoughts?
>
> It might also hurt, though, since we don't have a basic block
> vectorizer. IIUC the vectorizer is able to turn
>
> for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
> v[i] = 0.0;
>
> into
>
> *(vector double *)v = (vector double){0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0};
I intentionally put the cunroll pass after vectorizer to enable this. I
guess we might choose to rather unroll the loop, and leave creation of
the vector operations on some kind of later combine/straight-line code
vectorization pass.
Zdenek
