[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Disable gcc auto-vectorisation

Måns Rullgård mans
Tue Jul 14 00:58:30 CEST 2009


M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> writes:

> Since gcc 4.3, the auto-vectoriser (-ftree-vectorize) has been enabled
> at -O3 optimisation level.  This vectoriser is, mildly put, useless.
> When it doesn't produce outright broken code, it is a gamble whether
> the result is any faster whatsoever, and we have seen cases where it
> introduced a significant slowdown.

I forgot to mention that this bug-ridden monstrosity is the cause of
most of the FATE failures with gcc 4.4 on powerpc.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com



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