Thanks a lot. That indeed works. The speedup is not particularly large, and varies quite a bit, from 1.5 to 3 times speedup. But it *is* working, and code_llvm reports a vector block.
Though performance isn't all that impressive, at least I know there is nothing fundamentally stopping the SIMD optimizations from happening. On Monday, November 9, 2015 at 9:57:12 PM UTC+1, Rob J Goedman wrote: > > Just now I installed Julia 0.4.1 from julialang.org/downloads and then > moved the Julia-0.4.1.app to /Applications (after double clicking the Julia > disk). That gave me simd without any problems. Maybe you could try that > route? >