Re: [Bug-gnubg] Vectorizing 3rd step

[Øystein O Johansen]

> I initialize a vector for scaling in the second loop. I believe this
> can be made simpler. Any suggestions?

My own suggestion:

Remove:
  float scale[4];
  v4sf scalevector;
  scale[0] = scale[1] = scale[2] = scale[3] = ari;
  scalevector = __builtin_ia32_loadaps(scale);

Use:
  v4sf scalevector = (v4sf) { ari, ari, ari, ari };

Just this little initialisation improvement gains about 1000 extra
static evaluation / second. I'm now at ~26300.

> Some comments: I believe having an integer counter in the loop slows
> it down. Can I exit the loop in an other way?

I'll see if I can exit the loops with comparing the pointers? Will
that work? Will it gain anything?

-Øystein


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