[LLVMdev] new vector resize instruction could be useful

[Jochen Wilhelmy]

Hi!

If I build a vector of some length (e.g. 4) from a vector of another 
length (e.g. 3)
then I get tons of extractelement and insertelement instructions. since
vectors of length 3 and 4 both map to an sse register it could be useful to
introduce an instruction that changes the length of a vector, either 
truncating
or extending by zero or undef values (whichever makes more sense).
for lengths 3 and 4 this maps to no-op but could be useful for e.g. 
concatenating
two vectors of length 8 to a vector of length 16 by first resizing to 
length 16
and then using shufflevector.
what do you think?

-jochen