[LLVMdev] LLVM 2.8 and MMX
Dale Johannesen
dalej at apple.com
Tue Sep 21 11:12:07 PDT 2010
On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:23 AMPDT, Nicolas Capens wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for the late reply. I got sidetracked by other fun projects. ;-)
>
> I found that the performance regression is caused by revisions 112804,
> 112805 and 112806. Those changes were made 2 days prior to the 2.8
> branching, so it may have not been the intention to include them there?
> Either way they make my vector-intensive code two times slower so it would
> be much appreciated to revert these changes for the 2.8 release.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicolas
Interesting. These are all Bruno's patches, and I'm pretty sure they weren't intended to affect MMX. I doubt reverting them is right since the effect on SSE is presumably positive. Unfortunately Bruno is not here any more.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Lattner [mailto:clattner at apple.com]
>>
>> I think some changes related to MMX landed before 2.8 branched which
>> shouldn't have... please file a bug.
So please file a bug, with example.
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