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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 4240] New: Array operations on short fixed-length arrays should be inlined

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           Summary: Array operations on short fixed-length arrays should
                    be inlined
           Product: D
           Version: 1.020
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: performance
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: clugdbug yahoo.com.au



If an array operation is performed on a short fixed-length array, for example:

float[3] x,y;
x[] += y[] * 4.0;

then it should not become a function call, it should simply be turned into:

x[0] += y[0] * 4.0;
x[1] += y[1] * 4.0;
x[2] += y[2] * 4.0;

I suspect that the threshold for making the function call will be occur at
length at least 9, possibly higher, since the overhead for the function call is
very large (it needs to check the capabilities of the processor, for example).

This will allow array operations to provide good performance in the
commonly-used case of 2D, 3D and 4D vectors.

For x86, when the code generator supports it, such usage should be turned
directly into SSE instructions. This issue is a step towards that longer-term
goal.

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A use case:

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=113021

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Leandro Lucarella <llucax gmail.com> changed:

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PDT ---
I'm marking this a a blocker of bug 859 so there is a single bug to track all
the inlining issues. Please do the same if you open more bugs associated to
inlining, or post them directly in bug 859.

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Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> changed:

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---
undoing false dependency

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PDT ---


 undoing false dependency


Can you elaborate a little on why having bug 859 as a tracker of all missing
inline oportunities is a bad thing?

Thanks

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It's worth noting that this is NOT a problem with the DMD inliner. This bug
will be fixed by making the array operation generator more sophisticated. All
changes will be confined to arrayop.c and will not involve the inliner in any
way.

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07:50:29 PDT ---
I suggest (and discussed this with Walter too) to strongly move towards making
arrays a library type. This is already happening for hashtables.

The compiler should reduce its role to only (a) translating array syntactic
sugar (e.g. literals) to calls to that library type, (b) CTFE for arrays (which
would be very difficult if CTFE were using the library array type), and (c)
figuring out high-level bulk operations like the one in this bug report and
optimize them.

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