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Assign the bug to me and I'll fix it in TOT next week! Thanks for narrowing it down! On Wednesday, September 22, 2010, Nicolas Capens <nicolas.capens at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I figured it out: > 112804 causes 64-bit UNPCKLBW to no longer be selected for certain cases. > 112805 is benign. > 112806 causes 64-bit UNPCKHBW to no longer be selected for certain cases. > > I've attached a potential fix for the 2.8 branch. > > The real problem is that the code above it which checks for > isUNPCK[L|H]_v...

On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Nicolas Capens wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for the late reply. I got sidetracked by other fun projects. ;-) > > I found that the performance regression is caused by revisions 112804, > 112805 and 112806. Those changes were made 2 days prior to the 2.8 > branching, so it may have not been the intention to include them there? > Either way they

On Sep 21, 2010, at 5:30 PMPDT, Bill Wendling wrote: > LLVM isn't going to stop generating MMX instructions all together. We can't do that. :-) If the user specifically wants MMX (by, say, using the builtins), we have to support that still. The plan to cease generating MMX for generic vectors is a work-in-progress right now. It's not in 2.8. > > -bw Right, early on there

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Nicolas Capens <nicolas.capens at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > It's not broken, but the performance is crippled. > > I noticed that the code still contains some MMX instructions, but several > operations get expanded (apparently swizzling and such get expanded to a > large number of byte moves). I think some changes related to