When we're able to turn a general gather/scatter into the "base + offsets"
form, we now try to extract out any constant components of the offsets and
then pass them as a separate parameter to the gather/scatter function
implementation.
We then in turn carefully emit code for the addressing calculation so that
these constant offsets match LLVM's patterns to detect this case, such that
we get the constant offsets directly encoded in the instruction's addressing
calculation in many cases, saving arithmetic instructions to do these
calculations.
Improves performance of stencil by ~15%. Other workloads unchanged.
We now do a single atomic hardware swap and then effectively do
swaps between the running program instances such that the result
is the same as if they had happened to run a particular ordering
of hardware swaps themselves.
Also cleaned up __atomic_swap_uniform_* built-in implementations
to not take the mask, which they weren't using anyway.
Finishes Issue #56.
Specifically, don't use vector select for masked store blend there,
but emit a call to a undefined __masked_store_blend_*() functions.
Added implementations of these functions to the sse4.h and generic-16.h
in examples/instrinsics. (Calls to these will never be generated with
LLVM 3.1).
(i.e., stop just reusing the ones for AVX1).
For now the only difference is that the int/uint min/max
functions call the new intrinsic for that. Once gather is
available from LLVM, that will go here as well.
This pass handles the "all on" and "all off" mask cases appropriately.
Also renamed load_masked stuff in built-ins to masked_load for consistency with
masked_store.
When used, these targets end up with calls to undefined functions for all
of the various special vector stuff ispc needs to compile ispc programs
(masked store, gather, min/max, sqrt, etc.).
These targets are not yet useful for anything, but are a step toward
having an option to C++ code with calls out to intrinsics.
Reorganized the directory structure a bit and put the LLVM bitcode used
to define target-specific stuff (as well as some generic built-ins stuff)
into a builtins/ directory.
Note that for building on Windows, it's now necessary to set a LLVM_VERSION
environment variable (with values like LLVM_2_9, LLVM_3_0, LLVM_3_1svn, etc.)
