For <N x i32> type mul, pmuludq will be used for targets without SSE41, which
often introduces many extra pack and unpack instructions in vectorized loop
body because pmuludq generates <N/2 x i64> type value. However when the operands
of <N x i32> mul are extended from smaller size values like i8 and i16, the type
of mul may be shrunk to use pmullw + pmulhw/pmulhuw instead of pmuludq, which
generates better code. For targets with SSE41, pmulld is supported so no
shrinking is needed.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20931
llvm-svn: 272694
Simon Pilgrim