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| author | Nadav Rotem <nrotem@apple.com> | 2013-01-03 01:56:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Nadav Rotem <nrotem@apple.com> | 2013-01-03 01:56:33 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/Vectorizers.rst b/docs/Vectorizers.rst index b4c5458953..d679ca4954 100644 --- a/docs/Vectorizers.rst +++ b/docs/Vectorizers.rst @@ -208,15 +208,14 @@ Partial unrolling during vectorization ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Modern processors feature multiple execution units, and only programs that contain a -high degree of parallelism can fully utilize the entire width of the machine. - +high degree of parallelism can fully utilize the entire width of the machine. The Loop Vectorizer increases the instruction level parallelism (ILP) by performing partial-unrolling of loops. In the example below the entire array is accumulated into the variable 'sum'. -This is inefficient because only a single 'adder' can be used by the processor. +This is inefficient because only a single execution port can be used by the processor. By unrolling the code the Loop Vectorizer allows two or more execution ports -to be used. +to be used simultaneously. .. code-block:: c++ |