[PATCH] D15552: TTI: Allow targets to override getScalarizationOverhead

[Hal Finkel via llvm-commits]

hfinkel added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D15552#379215, @arsenm wrote:

> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D15552#375044, @hfinkel wrote:
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> > If the vectors don't exist, shouldn't the insert/extract costs be zero?
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> The extract cost is zero. I'm not sure a vector insert should be considered as 0, because the only time this would really happen in the ISA is if packing a vector for a store


I don't understand what this means. What are you packing into? Is this packing in any way associated with the vector insertion IR instruction? But if you don't actually have vectors, then why is this cost not just part of the store cost?


http://reviews.llvm.org/D15552