[vectorizer] Completely disable the block frequency guidance of the loop
authorChandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:10:41 +0000 (09:10 +0000)
committerChandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:10:41 +0000 (09:10 +0000)
commit05d43d8b6fd520bcb828ea5025743b7eeb407fbf
tree97c1b041bdcef495a02f766d44c327edd08032b3
parente5487fce5d85325403b87c13caee443369e6d9e8
[vectorizer] Completely disable the block frequency guidance of the loop
vectorizer, placing it behind an off-by-default flag.

It turns out that block frequency isn't what we want at all, here or
elsewhere. This has been I think a nagging feeling for several of us
working with it, but Arnold has given some really nice simple examples
where the results are so comprehensively wrong that they aren't useful.

I'm planning to email the dev list with a summary of why its not really
useful and a couple of ideas about how to better structure these types
of heuristics.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@200294 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/X86/small-size.ll