[llvm-commits] [llvm] r170799 - /llvm/trunk/docs/Vectorizers.rst
Sean Silva
silvas at purdue.edu
Thu Dec 20 14:59:36 PST 2012
Author: silvas
Date: Thu Dec 20 16:59:36 2012
New Revision: 170799
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=170799&view=rev
Log:
docs: Cleanup trailing whitespace.
Modified:
llvm/trunk/docs/Vectorizers.rst
Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/Vectorizers.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/Vectorizers.rst?rev=170799&r1=170798&r2=170799&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/Vectorizers.rst (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/Vectorizers.rst Thu Dec 20 16:59:36 2012
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
knowing that the pointers A and B are unique. The Loop Vectorizer handles this
loop by placing code that checks, at runtime, if the arrays A and B point to
disjointed memory locations. If arrays A and B overlap, then the scalar version
-of the loop is executed.
+of the loop is executed.
.. code-block:: c++
@@ -83,11 +83,11 @@
Reductions
^^^^^^^^^^
-In this example the ``sum`` variable is used by consecutive iterations of
+In this example the ``sum`` variable is used by consecutive iterations of
the loop. Normally, this would prevent vectorization, but the vectorizer can
detect that 'sum' is a reduction variable. The variable 'sum' becomes a vector
of integers, and at the end of the loop the elements of the array are added
-together to create the correct result. We support a number of different
+together to create the correct result. We support a number of different
reduction operations, such as addition, multiplication, XOR, AND and OR.
.. code-block:: c++
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
int foo(int *A, int *B, int n) {
unsigned sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
- sum += A[i] + 5;
+ sum += A[i] + 5;
return sum;
}
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@
Scatter / Gather
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-The Loop Vectorizer can vectorize code that becomes scatter/gather
-memory accesses.
+The Loop Vectorizer can vectorize code that becomes scatter/gather
+memory accesses.
.. code-block:: c++
@@ -204,13 +204,13 @@
Performance
-----------
-This section shows the the execution time of Clang on a simple benchmark:
+This section shows the the execution time of Clang on a simple benchmark:
`gcc-loops <http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk/SingleSource/UnitTests/Vectorizer/>`_.
-This benchmarks is a collection of loops from the GCC autovectorization
+This benchmarks is a collection of loops from the GCC autovectorization
`page <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html>`_ by Dorit Nuzman.
The chart below compares GCC-4.7, ICC-13, and Clang-SVN with and without loop vectorization at -O3, tuned for "corei7-avx", running on a Sandybridge iMac.
-The Y-axis shows the time in msec. Lower is better. The last column shows the geomean of all the kernels.
+The Y-axis shows the time in msec. Lower is better. The last column shows the geomean of all the kernels.
.. image:: gcc-loops.png
:width: 100%
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
.. code-block:: console
- $ clang -fslp-vectorize file.c
+ $ clang -fslp-vectorize file.c
Details
-------
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
to combine similar independent instructions within simple control-flow regions
into vector instructions. Memory accesses, arithemetic operations, comparison
operations and some math functions can all be vectorized using this technique
-(subject to the capabilities of the target architecture).
+(subject to the capabilities of the target architecture).
For example, the following function performs very similar operations on its
inputs (a1, b1) and (a2, b2). The basic-block vectorizer may combine these
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