On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:42:15 GMT, Quan Anh Mai <qa...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/hotspot/share/opto/vectorIntrinsics.cpp line 2059:
>>
>>> 2057: if (need_load_shuffle) {
>>> 2058: shuffle = gvn().transform(new VectorLoadShuffleNode(shuffle, vt));
>>> 2059: }
>>
>> How about generating `VectorLoadShuffleNode` for all platforms that support
>> Vector API, and remove the helper method `vector_needs_load_shuffle()` ? For
>> those platforms that do not need this shuffle preparation, we can emit
>> nothing in codegen.
>
> I think not emitting `VectorLoadShuffleNode` is more common so it is better
> to emit them only when needed, as it will simplify the graph and may allow
> better inspections of the indices in the future. Additionally, a do-nothing
> node does not alias with its input and therefore kills the input, which leads
> to an additional spill if they both need to live.
Yeah, I agree that saving a node have some benefits like what you said. My
concern is there are more and more methods added into `Matcher::` and each
platform has to do the different implementation. There is not too much meaning
for those platforms that do not implement Vector API like` arm/ppc/...` for me.
This makes code not so easy to maintain.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13093#discussion_r1145598639
