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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: Vectorizing C compilers
Message-ID: <10548@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Jul 89 05:45:28 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <15388@ut-emx.UUCP> eric@chaos.utexas.edu () writes:
>but never a C compiler that can vectorize something like
>	for(j = 0; j < n; j++)
>		y[j] = sqrt(x[j]);

I would be surprised to find that the ANSI-compatible C compiler
for the Cray-2 fails to vectorize such a loop.  It vectorizes in
analogous cases.