Under normal circumstances we prefer the higher performance MOVD to extract the 0'th element of a v8i16 vector instead of PEXTRW.
But as detailed on PR27265, this prevents the SSE41 implementation of PEXTRW from folding the store of the 0'th element. Additionally it prevents us from making use of the fact that the (SSE2) reg-reg version of PEXTRW implicitly zero-extends the i16 element to the i32/i64 destination register.
This patch only preferentially lowers to MOVD if we will not be zero-extending the extracted i16, nor prevent a store from being folded (on SSSE41).
Fix for PR27265.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22509
llvm-svn: 276289
In this patch we optimize this pattern and convert the sequence into extract op of a narrow type.
This allows the BUILD_VECTOR dag optimizations to construct efficient shuffle operations in many cases.
llvm-svn: 149692
We must not issue a bitcast operation for integer-promotion of vector types, because the
location of the values in the vector may be different.
llvm-svn: 146150
Simon Pilgrim