On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:47:19AM -0600, Bill Schmidt wrote:
> But is this actually a good idea? It seems to me this will generate lousy
> code in the absence of hardware support. Won't we be better off warning and
> ignoring the directive, leaving the code in scalar form?
Depends on the exact code, I think sometimes it will be just fine and will
allow vectorizing something that really couldn't be otherwise.
Isn't it better to leave it for the user to decide?
They can always ask for it not to be generated (add notinbranch) if it isn't
worthwhile.
Jakub
