Hi I'm trying to accelerate my program with -ftree-vectorize and
-ftree-parallelize-loops.
Here are my test results using the different options (based on
gcc10.3.0 on i9-12900KF):
gcc-10 test.c -O3 -flto
> time: 29000 ms
gcc-10 test.c -O3 -flto -mavx2 -ftree-vectorize
> time: 17000 ms
gcc-10 test.c -O3 -flto -ftree-parallelize-loops=24
> time: 5000 ms
gcc-10 test.c -O3 -flto -ftree-parallelize-loops=24 -mavx2 -ftree-vectorize
> time: 5000 ms
I found that these two options do not work at the same time, that is,
if I use the `-ftree-vectorize` option alone, it can bring a big
efficiency gain compared to doing nothing; At the same time, if I use
the option of `-ftree-parallelize-loops` alone, it will also bring a
big efficiency gain. But if I use both options, vectorization fails,
that is, I can't get the benefits of vectorization, I can only get the
benefits of parallelizing loops.
I know that the reason may be that after parallelizing the loop,
vectorization cannot be performed, but is there any way I can reap the
benefits of both optimizations?
Here is my example program, adapted from the 462.libquantum in speccpu2006:
```
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#define MAX_UNSIGNED unsigned long long
struct quantum_reg_node_struct {
float _Complex *amplitude; /* alpha_j */
MAX_UNSIGNED *state; /* j */
};
typedef struct quantum_reg_node_struct quantum_reg_node;
struct quantum_reg_struct {
int width; /* number of qubits in the qureg */
int size; /* number of non-zero vectors */
int hashw; /* width of the hash array */
quantum_reg_node *node;
int *hash;
};
typedef struct quantum_reg_struct quantum_reg;
void quantum_toffoli(int control1, int control2, int target, quantum_reg *reg) {
for (int i = 0; i < reg->size; i++) {
if (reg->node->state[i] & ((MAX_UNSIGNED)1 << control1)) {
if (reg->node->state[i] & ((MAX_UNSIGNED)1 << control2)) {
reg->node->state[i] ^= ((MAX_UNSIGNED)1 << target);
}
}
}
}
int get_random() {
return rand() % 64;
}
void init(quantum_reg *reg) {
reg->size = 2097152;
for (int i = 0; i < reg->size; i++) {
reg->node = (quantum_reg_node *)malloc(sizeof(quantum_reg_node));
reg->node->state = (MAX_UNSIGNED *)malloc(sizeof(MAX_UNSIGNED)
* reg->size);
reg->node->amplitude = (float _Complex *)malloc(sizeof(float
_Complex) * reg->size);
if (i >= 1) break;
}
for (int i = 0; i < reg->size; i++) {
reg->node->amplitude[i] = 0;
reg->node->state[i] = 0;
}
}
int main() {
quantum_reg reg;
init(®);
for (int i = 0; i < 65000; i++) {
quantum_toffoli(get_random(), get_random(), get_random(), ®);
}
}
```
Thanks so much.