[LLVMdev] [RFC][PATCH] Adding absd/hadd/sad intrinsics

[Shahid, Asghar-ahmad]

Hi All,

I would like to introduce intrinsics to generate efficient codes for 'absolute differences', 'horizontal add'
and 'sum of absolute differences' Idioms used by user programs.

Identifying these idioms at lower level (Codegen) is complex. These idioms can be identified in LV/SLP
and vectorized using above intrinsics to generate better code.

Proposal:
1. Add intrinsics for 'absolute differences', 'horizontal add' and 'sum of absolute differences' having variants of
Fixed / floating point data types and signed/unsigned operations.
2. Recognize these idioms at loop vectorizer or SLP and replace with corresponding intrinsics based on the target's
Backend support.

Having these intrinsic will also help in cost modeling for these idioms which is complex down the lane.

Pls find attached a patch regarding this which is incomplete & dirty at this moment, however, it may help in this
discussion.

Regards,
Shahid


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