[FFmpeg-devel] Amazing intrinsics improvments in gcc 4

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

2004-03-12 i submitted bug
14552 (compiled trivial vector intrinsic code is inefficient) to gcc
(http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14552)

the source was:
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 typedef short mmxw  __attribute__ ((mode(V4HI)));
 typedef int   mmxdw __attribute__ ((mode(V2SI)));

mmxdw dw;
mmxw w;

void test(){
    w+=w;
    dw= (mmxdw)w;
}
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what gcc-3.4 -O3 -mtune=pentium3 -march=pentium3 -S  generated was:
        movq    w, %mm1 
        pushl   %ebp 
        movl    %esp, %ebp 
        popl    %ebp 
        psllw   $1, %mm1 
        movq    %mm1, w 
        movq    w, %mm0 
        movq    %mm0, dw 
        ret 

what a human would generate:
        movq w, %mm1 
        paddw %mm1,%mm1 
        movq %mm1, w 
        movq %mm1,dw 
        ret

Now finally after 4 years the bug has been closed (with wontfix of course)
and gcc-4.3 -O3 -mtune=pentium3 -march=pentium3 -S now generates:
        pushl   %ebp
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        subl    $16, %esp
        movl    w, %eax
        movl    w+4, %edx
        movl    %ebx, -8(%ebp)
        movl    %esi, -4(%ebp)
        movl    %eax, -16(%ebp)
        movl    %edx, -12(%ebp)
        movswl  -16(%ebp),%ecx
        movswl  -14(%ebp),%ebx
        movswl  -12(%ebp),%esi
        movswl  -10(%ebp),%eax
        addl    %ecx, %ecx
        addl    %ebx, %ebx
        addl    %esi, %esi
        addl    %eax, %eax
        movw    %bx, w+2
        movl    -8(%ebp), %ebx
        movw    %si, w+4
        movl    -4(%ebp), %esi
        movw    %ax, w+6
        movw    %cx, w
        movl    w+4, %edx
        movl    w, %eax
        movl    %edx, dw+4
        movl    %eax, dw
        movl    %ebp, %esp
        popl    %ebp
        ret

I thought some people here would be interrested as there were various claims
on gccs abilities and improvments posted here lately ...

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