[PATCH] D20443: [PowerPC] - Legalize illegal vector types by widening rather than integer promotion

[Nemanja Ivanovic via llvm-commits]

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Committed revision 274535.


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Comment at: lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCISelLowering.h:443
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+    /// legalized by promoting the integer element type is much worse than code
+    /// we generate if we widen the type for applicable vectory types.
+    TargetLoweringBase::LegalizeTypeAction getPreferredVectorAction(EVT VT)
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hfinkel wrote:
> Can you say something about why it is worse. N years from now someone will wonder whether this is still true ;)
Thank you. Will do (and I'll fix the typo - they're not "vectory" types :)).


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http://reviews.llvm.org/D20443