[LLVMdev] Enabling the SLP-vectorizer by default for -O3

[Renato Golin]

Nadav,

I ran some benchmarks and I'm seeing 3-6% performance loss on a few of them
when we use SLP on both O2 and O3 (with O3 having the biggest differences).

Unfortunately, my benchmarking is not scientific, so I can't vow for those
numbers, nor I'll have time to investigate it closer in the short term, but
I wouldn't be surprised if this is result of extra shuffles we were seeing
a few months back on the BB-Vect. This means that we could maybe trim that
off (later) by fixing two or three bugs and (fingers crossed) making those
shuffles go away.

I'm trying to set up a task to compare the most important compile options
(including all three vectorizers) on all optimization levels, but that's
not going to happen any time soon, so don't take my word for it. If I'm the
only one with bad numbers, I'm sure we can fix the issues later if you do
introduce the SLP into O3 now.

Though, I would like to wait a bit more for O2 and Os, because I can't also
vow for its correctness, since we don't have buildbots with the SLP on, nor
on O2,, and O2 is more or less the "fast, but still stable" state that
people prefer to compile production code.

Turn it on on O3, let's see how the bots behave, lets get a few data points
and have a bit more information on its state.

cheers,
--renato


On 29 July 2013 21:07, Jim Grosbach <grosbach at apple.com> wrote:

> Cool. Thanks!
> -Jim
>
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 29 July 2013 20:39, Jim Grosbach <grosbach at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> These results are really excellent. They’re on Intel, I assume, right?
>> What do the ARM numbers look like? Before enabling by default, we should
>> make sure that the results are comparable there as well.
>>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I'll have a look.
>
> --renato
>
>
>
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