[LAD] vectorization

[Jussi Laako]

Malte Steiner wrote:
> typedef float v4sf __attribute__ ((vector_size(16)));

These attributes are mostly useful to ensure alignment etc. properties
of variables in stack.

> On AMD 64bit Turion (single core) on 64 Studio in 64bit mode this doesnt 
> improve performance at all, actually it even get worse. Is GCC that good 
> at optimizing on its own?

Currently compilers are not very good at vectorization of all algorithm
types. Still, best results can be reached with handwritten assembler...


	- Jussi