On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> wrote: > Ping, > > nobody has an opinion on this? Or some explanation why I am mistaken to > believe that #pragma target makes it safer now? > > It would enable a number of optimizations, like constant propagation, FMA > contraction, etc. It would also allow us to remove several builtins.
I see no problem with using the array-type access to the registers. As for replacing the builtins with arithmetic operators: I appreciate the possibility for optimization. But is there any chance the calls could not end up being implemented with a vector instruction? I think that would be bad. The intrinsics should be a way to guarantee that the programmer can create vector instructions. Otherwise we might just not support them.
