diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt b/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt index a581993c3c6..624e56fa0f6 100644 --- a/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt +++ b/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt @@ -922,3 +922,22 @@ _test2: ## @test2 The insertps's of $0 are pointless complex copies. //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// + +[UNSAFE FP] + +void foo(double, double, double); +void norm(double x, double y, double z) { + double scale = __builtin_sqrt(x*x + y*y + z*z); + foo(x/scale, y/scale, z/scale); +} + +We currently generate an sqrtsd and 3 divsd instructions. This is bad, fp div is +slow and not pipelined. In -ffast-math mode we could compute "1.0/scale" first +and emit 3 mulsd in place of the divs. This can be done as a target-independent +transform. + +If we're dealing with floats instead of doubles we could even replace the sqrtss +and inversion with an rsqrtss instruction, which computes 1/sqrt faster at the +cost of reduced accuracy. + +//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//