Andreas Krall and Sylvain Lelait
Institut für Computersprachen
Technische Universität Wien
Argentinierstraße 8
A-1040 Wien, Austria
{andi,
sylvain}@complang.tuwien.ac.at
We propose two code generation techniques to produce native code using these multimedia extensions for programs written in a high level language: classical vectorization and vectorization by unrolling. Vectorization by unrolling is simpler than classical vectorization since data dependence analysis is reduced to acyclic control flow graph analysis. Furthermore, we address the problem of unaligned memory accesses. This can be handled by both static analysis and dynamic run time checking. Preliminary experimental results for a code generator for the UltraSPARC VIS instruction set show that speedups of up to a factor of 4.8 are possible, and that vectorization by unrolling is much simpler but as effective as classical vectorization.