SIMD/SSE support & alignment

[Geoffrey Mainland]

On 03/12/2013 03:12 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Geoffrey Mainland <mainland at apeiron.net> wrote:
>
> LLVM needs to know statically whether or not an SSE move is aligned---it
> can't be computed at runtime. I don't think passing an extra Int#
> argument (or whatever) to a primop is going to work.
>
>
> Ah, but sometimes optimization exposes that information statically
> (i.e. by inlining). In my case I know Array# is word-aligned and if
> someone uses memcpy with a 0 offset the compiler might spot this and
> use the right alignment (this is what happens today). Now, if
> e.g. ByteArray# can never allocated 16-byte aligned, this doesn't help
> us much.

So you are suggesting that if the inliner doesn't happen to expose the
argument statically, then we should fall back to unaligned SSE move
instructions?