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On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 5:10 PM Florian Hahn <florian_hahn at apple.com> wrote: > The loop vectorizer does not really handle loops that already operate on vectors, so that is why the loop using v4f32 does not get widened. > > Arguably the user explicitly asked for 4xfloat vectors in the v4f32 version, so that is what gets generated. In my case I have tons of legacy code written for

Absolutely. We do it for scalars, so it would likely be a matter of just extending it. But that is one example. The issue of extracting elements, performing an operation on each element individually and then rebuilding the vector is likely more prevalent than that. At least I think that is the case, but I'll do some analysis to see if it is so or not. On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 6:15 PM Craig