[FFmpeg-devel] gcc: Remove auto-vectorization limitation.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 02:17:50PM +0800, Jiawei wrote:
> This patch modifies the FFmpeg build system to remove the explicit disabling
> of GCC's auto-vectorization feature.
> 
> Modern GCC versions (>= 10.0) have demonstrated stable auto-vectorization
> capabilities through extensive optimizations in loop analysis and SIMD
> code generation. The explicit -fno-tree-vectorize flag originally added
> in commit 973859f (2009) to workaround early GCC vectorization instability
> is no longer necessary.
> 
> Key improvements justifying this change:
> 1. Enhanced heuristics for loop vectorization cost models
> 2. Mature handling of alignment and memory access patterns
> 3. Robust fallback mechanisms for unsupported architectures
> 
> This change allows FFmpeg to benefit from automated SIMD optimizations
> when built with -O3 optimization level, particularly improving
> performance on x86_64 (AVX), ARM64 (SVE) and RISC-V(RVV) architectures.
> 
> [1] https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/973859f5230e77beea7bb59dc081870689d6d191
> 
> ---
>  configure | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 3730b0524c..b9e95ce4ec 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -7656,7 +7656,6 @@ if enabled icc; then
>              disable aligned_stack
>      fi
>  elif enabled gcc; then
> -    check_optflags -fno-tree-vectorize
>      check_cflags -Werror=format-security
>      check_cflags -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
>      check_cflags -Werror=missing-prototypes

Your text speaks about this change being ok in a gcc version dependant
way

Your patch has no gcc version dependancy

If you claim that all issues where solved, please show the issues happening
in version v and no longer happening in w>v . Then it make sense to
change the flags for version w

Thx
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