tejohnson added a comment.

In D77989#1979772 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D77989#1979772>, @wmi wrote:

> In D77989#1979725 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D77989#1979725>, @wmi wrote:
>
> > The patch makes the reasoning about when the internal flags will take 
> > effect much easier.
> >
> > One question is, with the change, the internal flags can only be used to 
> > disable loop vectorization/slp vectorization/loop interleaving, but not to 
> > enable them. Can we treat them in the way that the flags in 
> > PipelineTuningOptions contain the default values set by Opt Level, and the 
> > internal flags can override them, which can either enable or disable the 
> > vectorizations/interleaving.
>
>
> I realize it is not easy to do since the internal flags are bool type, and 
> there is no easy way to specify unspecified values for the internal flags 
> which could allow us to use the default values set by Opt Level.  Ideally, we 
> want -slp-vectorize=true to enable slp, -slp-vectorize=false to disable slp, 
> no -slp-vectorize flag to keep the default value, but that is not easy to 
> achieve with current commandline library.


Right. The reason I went with the strategy of using the false value to disable 
is that they are all on by default (at least >O0), and it seemed more useful to 
have a way to disable.


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