https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105617
--- Comment #15 from Michael_S <already5chosen at yahoo dot com> --- (In reply to Richard Biener from comment #14) > (In reply to Michael_S from comment #12) > > On related note... > > One of the historical good features of gcc relatively to other popular > > compilers was absence of auto-vectorization at -O2. > > When did you decide to change it and why? > > Well, people requested it ... so GCC 12 is now having it (with an extra > eye on code size but this all doesn't work for scalar code vectorization > which OTOH is thought to almost always benefit code size ...). "People" is a vague term. You didn't organize voting among all gcc users, I suppose. So, count me as "people" who asks to remove it. Somehow , I suspect that the other one who will vote like me has a middle name Benedict.
