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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Failure to produce vxorps to avoid latency on AVX operations"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46075">46075</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Failure to produce vxorps to avoid latency on AVX operations
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libraries
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Backend: X86
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>gabravier@gmail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>craig.topper@gmail.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, llvm-dev@redking.me.uk, spatel+llvm@rotateright.com
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        <pre>double f(double x, int i)
{
    return x * i;
}

With `-O3 -mavx2`, Clang produces this :

f(double, int): # @f(double, int)
  vcvtsi2sd xmm1, xmm1, edi
  vmulsd xmm0, xmm1, xmm0
  ret

GCC produces this :

f(double, int):
  vmovsd xmm1, xmm0, xmm0
  vxorps xmm0, xmm0, xmm0
  vcvtsi2sd xmm0, xmm0, edi
  vmulsd xmm0, xmm0, xmm1
  ret

According to GCC developers on here :
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57954">https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57954</a>, using `vxorps` avoids a
latency which is caused by non-zeroing an AVX register before using it. This
seems to affect literally all X86 processors (as GCC uses `vxorps` for them
all) and Clang uses `vxorps` for none.</pre>
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