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by bigfishrunning 24 days ago
> Usually...probably...

you're betting against the compiler ever improving.
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saagarjha 24 days ago
This would be a regression
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bigfishrunning 24 days ago
Why? Automatic vectorization is pretty bad and has been for years, but wouldn't it be nice if the compiler could unroll-loops and use SIMD instructions to make your code faster while also being correct?
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saagarjha 23 days ago
If you are using SIMD instructions on x86 you probably want the unaligned ones
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