On KNC, the various vector comparison instructions can optionally
be masked; if a mask is provided, the result is effectively that
the value returned is the AND of the mask with the result of the
comparison.
This change adds an optimization pass to the C++ backend that looks
for vector ANDs where one operand is a comparison and rewrites
them--e.g. "__and(__equal_float(a, b), c)" is changed to
"__equal_float_and_mask(a, b, c)", saving an instruction in the end.
Issue #319.
e.g. "__equal()" -> "__equal_float()", etc.
No functional change; this is necessary groundwork for a forthcoming
peephole optimization that eliminates ANDs of masks in some cases.
If --opt=fast-math is used then the generated code contains:
#define ISPC_FAST_MATH 1
Otherwise it contains:
#undef ISPC_FAST_MATH
This allows the generic headers to support the user's request.
This should help with performance of the generated code.
Updated the relevant header files (sse4.h, generic-16.h, generic-32.h, generic-64.h)
Updated generic-32.h and generic-64.h to the new memory API
(Rather than implicitly with a using declaration.) This will
allow for some further changes to ISPC's C backend, without collision
with ISPC's namespace. This change aims to have no effect on the code
generated by the compiler, it should be a big no-op; except for its
side-effects on maintainability.
Rather than XOR'ing with a temporary 'all-on' vector, we call
__not. Also, we call out to __and_not1 and __and_not2, for an
AND where the first or second operand, respectively, has had
NOT applied to it.
Now, the __smear* functions in generated C++ code have an unused first
parameter of the desired return type; this allows us to have headers
that include variants of __smear for multiple target widths. (This
approach is necessary since we can't overload by return type in C++.)
Issue #256.
We now try harder to keep the names of instructions related to the
initial names of variables they're derived from and so forth. This
is useful for making both LLVM IR as well as generated C++ code
easier to correlate back to the original ispc source code.
Issue #244.
Now, when we're printing out a constant vector value, we check to see
if it's a splat and call out to one of the __splat_* functions in
the generated code if to.
Clean up the API, so the caller doesn't have to pass in a vector so
the function can track PHI nodes (do that internally instead.)
Handle casts in lValuesAreEqual().
Don't include declarations of malloc/free in the generated code (get
the standard ones from system headers instead).
Add a cast to (uint8_t *) before calls to malloc, which C++ requires,
since proper malloc returns a void *.
In this case, we now emit calls to potentially-specialized functions for the
left/right shifts that take a single integer value for the shift amount. These
in turn can be matched to the corresponding intrinsics for the SSE target.
Issue #145.
ispc now supports goto, but only under uniform control flow--i.e.
it must be possible for the compiler to statically determine that
all program instances will follow the goto. An error is issued at
compile time if a goto is used when this is not the case.
The compiler now supports an --emit-c++ option, which generates generic
vector C++ code. To actually compile this code, the user must provide
C++ code that implements a variety of types and operations (e.g. adding
two floating-point vector values together, comparing them, etc).
There are two examples of this required code in examples/intrinsics:
generic-16.h is a "generic" 16-wide implementation that does all required
with scalar math; it's useful for demonstrating the requirements of the
implementation. Then, sse4.h shows a simple implementation of a SSE4
target that maps the emitted function calls to SSE intrinsics.
When using these example implementations with the ispc test suite,
all but one or two tests pass with gcc and clang on Linux and OSX.
There are currently ~10 failures with icc on Linux, and ~50 failures with
MSVC 2010. (To be fixed in coming days.)
Performance varies: when running the examples through the sse4.h
target, some have the same performance as when compiled with --target=sse4
from ispc directly (options), while noise is 12% slower, rt is 26%
slower, and aobench is 2.2x slower. The details of this haven't yet been
carefully investigated, but will be in coming days as well.
Issue #92.
