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| From | BartC <bc@freeuk.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: C Compilers QoI |
| Date | 2017-03-26 22:43 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ob9cfl$q3q$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 26/03/2017 22:19, supercat@casperkitty.com wrote:
> On Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 8:16:37 PM UTC-5, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 03/17/17 12:14 PM, supercat wrote:
>>> How useful is it to try to apply vectorization into an entire program, rather
>>> than focusing on particular places within it where it is apt to be helpful?
>>> I would think that writing the portions of program that would benefit from
>>> vectorization in a language like FORTRAN which is designed to facilitate
>>> them would make more sense than having a compiler search through an entire
>>> program for opportunities to apply SIMD optimizations which will likely be
>>> useful only in a few localized places.
>>>
>> Why? C compilers either with or without Open-MP have been vectorising
>> code for years. More so with CUDA.
>
> C compilers can vectorize certain constructs, but C lacks any nice way to
> say that two pointers may be equal, but will not be used in any *other*
> form of overlapping fashion, thus making it safe for a compiler to
> vectorize something like:
>
> void add_vector(float * dest,
> float const *src1, float const *src2)
> {
> for (int i=0; i<50; i++)
> dest[i] = src1[i] + src2[i];
> }
>
> The "restrict" qualifier can help a lot, but if a function for e.g. a long
> vector addition wants to provide options to either store the sum in one
> of the original vectors or write the result someplace else, it would need
> to be written as:
>
> void add_vector(float *restrict dest,
> float const *restrict src1, float const *restrict src2)
> {
> if (dest == src1)
> {
> if (dest == src2)
> for (int i=0; i<50; i++)
> dest[i] += dest[i] + dest[i];
> else
> for (int i=0; i<50; i++)
> dest[i] += dest[i] + src2[i];
> }
> else if (dest == src2)
> for (int i=0; i<50; i++)
> dest[i] += src1[i] + dest[i];
> else
> for (int i=0; i<50; i++)
> dest[i] = src1[i] + src2[i];
> }
>
> I don't know FORTRAN, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't require writing out
> the code four times to achieve the required semantics.
Surely the simplest way is to have a separate INPLACE version (int n
param omitted to avoid wrap):
void add_vector(float *result, float *a, float *b); // result=a+b
void iadd_vector(float *a, float *b); // a+=b
--
bartc
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C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 13:01 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-03-14 06:16 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2017-03-14 06:42 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 06:56 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 15:58 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 09:22 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-14 16:54 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-14 10:24 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-14 17:58 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-14 14:12 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-14 16:34 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-14 17:36 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 23:06 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-14 16:20 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-03-15 02:32 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-15 12:49 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-15 11:56 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-15 23:09 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-16 18:17 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-16 11:47 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-17 07:50 +1300
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-16 12:59 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-16 21:24 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-16 14:23 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-17 11:30 +1300
Re: C Compilers QoI Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-17 11:38 +1300
Re: C Compilers QoI Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-03-17 05:07 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-17 20:26 +1300
Re: C Compilers QoI Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-03-17 07:59 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-16 16:14 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-16 22:54 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-17 09:01 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-26 14:16 +1300
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-26 14:19 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-26 22:43 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 01:28 +0200
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-26 22:07 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-27 11:28 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-27 07:38 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-27 16:23 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-27 08:55 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-27 17:01 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-27 10:03 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 17:58 +0200
Re: C Compilers QoI already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2017-03-27 03:54 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-27 08:46 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-27 17:47 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-27 11:48 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-27 15:37 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-27 14:46 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-27 20:28 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-28 01:18 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-28 18:24 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-29 07:40 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-29 17:05 +0200
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-29 11:07 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-03-31 04:04 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-31 10:53 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-31 07:35 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-31 08:07 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-31 07:54 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-31 07:43 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-17 11:21 +1300
Re: C Compilers QoI Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-17 11:24 +1300
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-16 22:15 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-17 12:31 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2017-03-16 15:24 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-16 16:03 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-17 12:39 +0000
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Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-16 02:18 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-03-18 00:45 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-18 13:12 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-03-18 20:31 +0000
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Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-16 09:22 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> - 2017-03-24 16:13 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-24 12:32 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-24 22:13 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-25 13:05 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-27 15:44 -0500
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Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 17:26 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-15 12:02 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-14 15:00 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2017-03-14 07:36 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-14 15:57 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-14 08:11 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-29 23:51 -0500
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 15:28 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-14 21:41 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-14 09:26 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 18:23 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-14 12:05 -0700
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Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 17:08 +0000
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Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 17:34 +0000
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Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 19:06 +0000
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Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 21:14 +0000
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Re: C Compilers QoI supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-14 14:53 -0700
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 23:20 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-03-15 02:43 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-14 19:39 +0100
Re: C Compilers QoI BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-14 19:10 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-03-14 19:29 +0000
Re: C Compilers QoI Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-03-15 09:27 +0100
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