Dong Chen
2013-Apr-14 16:18 UTC
[LLVMdev] is there any passes or compiling options that can aviod to generate vector instructions and 'select' instruction in IR
hi guys: is there any passes or compiling options that can aviod to generate vector instructions and 'select' instruction in IR. i think that these instructions can be replaced with other instructions in LLVM IR. So if there is a way to eliminate these instructions during compilation? -- View this message in context: http://llvm.1065342.n5.nabble.com/is-there-any-passes-or-compiling-options-that-can-aviod-to-generate-vector-instructions-and-select-iR-tp56730.html Sent from the LLVM - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Duncan Sands
2013-Apr-15 07:55 UTC
[LLVMdev] is there any passes or compiling options that can aviod to generate vector instructions and 'select' instruction in IR
Hi,> is there any passes or compiling options that can aviod to generate vector > instructions and 'select' instruction in IR. > i think that these instructions can be replaced with other instructions in > LLVM IR. So if there is a way to eliminate these instructions during > compilation?you can avoid having optimizers create vector instructions by not running the vectorizer pass. However select is harder to avoid because it is created by fundamental optimization passes that you have to run to get good code. Also, front-ends might create them directly. Why do you want to avoid "select"? Ciao, Duncan.
Roel Jordans
2013-Apr-15 15:48 UTC
[LLVMdev] is there any passes or compiling options that can aviod to generate vector instructions and 'select' instruction in IR
On 15/04/13 09:55, Duncan Sands wrote:> Hi, > >> is there any passes or compiling options that can aviod to generate vector >> instructions and 'select' instruction in IR. >> i think that these instructions can be replaced with other instructions in >> LLVM IR. So if there is a way to eliminate these instructions during >> compilation? > > you can avoid having optimizers create vector instructions by not running > the vectorizer pass. However select is harder to avoid because it is created > by fundamental optimization passes that you have to run to get good code. > Also, front-ends might create them directly. Why do you want to avoid "select"? >A trick I sometimes use is to set the vector width to 1 using '-mllvm -force-vector-width=1' as a flag to clang. That seems to suppress vectorization nicely although I guess that there are nicer methods to achieve the same effect. Cheers, Roel
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