The gimple folding ties the AArch64 backend to the tree representation of the
midend via the neon intrinsics. This code enables constant folding of Neon
intrinsics reduction ops, so improves performance, but is not necessary for
correctness. By temporarily removing it (here), we can then change
On 18 September 2014 12:45, Alan Lawrence wrote:
> The gimple folding ties the AArch64 backend to the tree representation of
> the midend via the neon intrinsics. This code enables constant folding of
> Neon intrinsics reduction ops, so improves performance, but is not necessary
> for correctness.