Re: Auto-vectorization speeds up multiplication of large-precisionnumerics

On 2020-06-09 13:50, Amit Khandekar wrote:
> Also, the regress/sql/numeric_big test itself speeds up by 80%

That's nice.  I can confirm the speedup:

-O3 without the patch:

      numeric                      ... ok          737 ms
test numeric_big                  ... ok         1014 ms

-O3 with the patch:

      numeric                      ... ok          680 ms
test numeric_big                  ... ok          580 ms

Also:

-O2 without the patch:

      numeric                      ... ok          693 ms
test numeric_big                  ... ok         1160 ms

-O2 with the patch:

      numeric                      ... ok          677 ms
test numeric_big                  ... ok          917 ms

So the patch helps either way.  But it also seems that without the 
patch, -O3 might be a bit slower in some cases.  This might need more 
testing.

> For the for loop to be auto-vectorized, I had to simplify it to
> something like this :

Well, how do we make sure we keep it that way?  How do we prevent some 
random rearranging of the code or some random compiler change to break 
this again?

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