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Register spilling with recent gcc & clang

Submitted by Gael Guennebaud

Assigned to Nobody

Link to original bugzilla bug (#1637)

Description

We have some performance regressions with recent compiler versions of both clang and gcc. The problem is bad register allocation leading to spilling. More precisely, here is what I found:

With AVX (no FMA):

  • gcc 5: OK

  • gcc >= 6: spilling in 2pX4 kernel

  • clang: OK

With AVX+FMA:

  • gcc: OK

  • clang 5: OK

  • clang >=6: spilling in 3pX4 kernel

With AVX512f(+FMA)

  • gcc: ok

  • clang: ok

Blocking

#814