This is a continuation of adding FMF to call instructions:
http://reviews.llvm.org/rL255555
As with D15937, the intent of the patch is to preserve the current behavior of the transform
except that we use the pow call's 'fast' attribute as a trigger rather than a function-level
attribute.
The TODO comment notes a potential follow-on patch that would propagate FMF to the new
instructions.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16122
llvm-svn: 258153
Summary:
In order to avoid calling pow function we generate repeated fmul when n is a
positive or negative whole number.
For each exponent we pre-compute Addition Chains in order to minimize the no.
of fmuls.
Refer: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/addition_chain.html
We pre-compute addition chains for exponents upto 32 (which results in a max of
7 fmuls).
For eg:
4 = 2+2
5 = 2+3
6 = 3+3 and so on
Hence,
pow(x, 4.0) ==> y = fmul x, x
x = fmul y, y
ret x
For negative exponents, we simply compute the reciprocal of the final result.
Note: This transformation is only enabled under fast-math.
Patch by Mandeep Singh Grang <mgrang@codeaurora.org>
Reviewers: weimingz, majnemer, escha, davide, scanon, joerg
Subscribers: probinson, escha, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13994
llvm-svn: 254776
