[PATCH] "float2int": Add a new pass to demote from float to int where possible.

hfinkel at anl.gov hfinkel at anl.gov
Thu Mar 5 07:36:48 PST 2015


In http://reviews.llvm.org/D7790#134758, @mkuper wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Just so we have a record of what we talked about on IRC (and can give Hal a chance to disagree :-)


Good; I disagree :-)

The first question is answer is: What is the most useful and reasonable canonical form? The reason I support running this pass early in the pipeline is because I believe that demoting these int -> fp -> int sequences to int sequences, when semantically equivalent, is the most useful canonical form.

If it is useful, because of microarchitectural features, to use FP vector ops instead of integer vector ops, then that should be 'actively' handled later (instead of just taking advantage of it when it happens to happen).

So I think that this should run early by default, x86 included. We should also reverse the transformation later, perhaps within the vectorizer, using an actual cost model, if that proves useful.

).

> On x86, vector i64 muls can be much worse than vector double muls. Since this is pre-LoopV, and we don't know if we'll end up with vector or scalar code, I think the safe thing to do on x86 would be to disable this for cases where we'll do a double -> i64 transformation.

> 

> This means we should probably have a target hook for that that x86 can override.



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