I am attempting to optimise some loops and I have managed but I wonder if I have only done it partially correct. Say for example that I have this loop:
for(i=0;i<n;i++){
b[i] = a[i]*2;
}
unrolling this by a factor of 3, produces this:
int unroll = (n/4)*4;
for(i=0;i<unroll;i+=4)
{
b[i] = a[i]*2;
b[i+1] = a[i+1]*2;
b[i+2] = a[i+2]*2;
b[i+3] = a[i+3]*2;
}
for(;i<n;i++)
{
b[i] = a[i]*2;
}
Now is the SSE translation equivalent:
__m128 ai_v = _mm_loadu_ps(&a[i]);
__m128 two_v = _mm_set1_ps(2);
__m128 ai2_v = _mm_mul_ps(ai_v, two_v);
_mm_storeu_ps(&b[i], ai2_v);
or is it:
__m128 ai_v = _mm_loadu_ps(&a[i]);
__m128 two_v = _mm_set1_ps(2);
__m128 ai2_v = _mm_mul_ps(ai_v, two_v);
_mm_storeu_ps(&b[i], ai2_v);
__m128 ai1_v = _mm_loadu_ps(&a[i+1]);
__m128 two1_v = _mm_set1_ps(2);
__m128 ai_1_2_v = _mm_mul_ps(ai1_v, two1_v);
_mm_storeu_ps(&b[i+1], ai_1_2_v);
__m128 ai2_v = _mm_loadu_ps(&a[i+2]);
__m128 two2_v = _mm_set1_ps(2);
__m128 ai_2_2_v = _mm_mul_ps(ai2_v, two2_v);
_mm_storeu_ps(&b[i+2], ai_2_2_v);
__m128 ai3_v = _mm_loadu_ps(&a[i+3]);
__m128 two3_v = _mm_set1_ps(2);
__m128 ai_3_2_v = _mm_mul_ps(ai3_v, two3_v);
_mm_storeu_ps(&b[i+3], ai_3_2_v);
I am slightly confused about the section of code:
for(;i<n;i++)
{
b[i] = a[i]*2;
}
what does this do? Is it just to do the extra parts for example if the loop is not dividable by the factor you choose to unroll it by? Thank you.