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| author | Nadav Rotem <nrotem@apple.com> | 2013-08-05 04:27:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Nadav Rotem <nrotem@apple.com> | 2013-08-05 04:27:34 +0000 |
| commit | 2da8b3e99e631a9ed963bd1f62bd73626c72374c (patch) | |
| tree | 4cd17260c1f32e2cebf663c77cca39af5bd40196 /llvm | |
| parent | 9c285b300d6c055efbec5e727f1ed47c8369c72f (diff) | |
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Update the docs.
llvm-svn: 187713
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diff --git a/llvm/docs/Vectorizers.rst b/llvm/docs/Vectorizers.rst index 221fb2949f8..61ebca2bb52 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/Vectorizers.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/Vectorizers.rst @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ The SLP vectorizer merges multiple scalars that are found in the code into vectors while the Loop Vectorizer widens instructions in loops to operate on multiple consecutive iterations. +Both the Loop Vectorizer and the SLP Vectorizer are enabled by default. + .. _loop-vectorizer: The Loop Vectorizer @@ -21,9 +23,8 @@ The Loop Vectorizer Usage ----- -LLVM's Loop Vectorizer is now enabled by default for -O3. -We plan to enable parts of the Loop Vectorizer on -O2 and -Os in future releases. -The vectorizer can be disabled using the command line: +The Loop Vectorizer is enabled by default, but it can be disabled +through clang using the command line flag: .. code-block:: console @@ -322,12 +323,12 @@ The SLP-vectorizer processes the code bottom-up, across basic blocks, in search Usage ------ -The SLP Vectorizer is not enabled by default, but it can be enabled +The SLP Vectorizer is enabled by default, but it can be disabled through clang using the command line flag: .. code-block:: console - $ clang -fslp-vectorize file.c + $ clang -fno-slp-vectorize file.c LLVM has a second basic block vectorization phase which is more compile-time intensive (The BB vectorizer). This optimization @@ -337,24 +338,3 @@ can be enabled through clang using the command line flag: $ clang -fslp-vectorize-aggressive file.c - -The SLP vectorizer is in early development stages but can already vectorize -and accelerate many programs in the LLVM test suite. - -======================= ============ -Benchmark Name Gain -======================= ============ -Misc/flops-7 -32.70% -Misc/matmul_f64_4x4 -23.23% -Olden/power -21.45% -Misc/flops-4 -14.90% -ASC_Sequoia/AMGmk -13.85% -TSVC/LoopRerolling-flt -11.76% -Misc/flops-6 -9.70% -Misc/flops-5 -8.54% -Misc/flops -8.12% -TSVC/NodeSplitting-dbl -6.96% -Misc-C++/sphereflake -6.74% -Ptrdist/yacr2 -6.31% -======================= ============ - |
