The z13 vector facility includes some instructions that operate only on the
high f64 in a v2f64, effectively extending the FP register set from 16
to 32 registers. It's still better to use the old instructions if the
operands happen to fit though, since the older instructions have a shorter
encoding.
Based on a patch by Richard Sandiford.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@236524 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
The architecture doesn't really have any native v4f32 operations except
v4f32->v2f64 and v2f64->v4f32 conversions, with only half of the v4f32
elements being used. Even so, using vector registers for <4 x float>
and scalarising individual operations is much better than generating
completely scalar code, since there's much less register pressure.
It's also more efficient to do v4f32 comparisons by extending to 2
v2f64s, comparing those, then packing the result.
This particularly helps with llvmpipe.
Based on a patch by Richard Sandiford.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@236523 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
