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Explicit vectorization of C/C++ and FORTRAN application programs are pioneered by Intel® Cilk™ Plus and then inherited and enhanced by OpenMP 4.0 and 4.5 standardization. There is a known functionality gap, where some auto-vectorizable code does not have adequate syntax support for explicit vector programming. In this paper, we propose and discuss a few syntax extensions to reduce the gap for compress/expand and histogram idioms, which are commonly seen in high performance computing.
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Saito, H., Preis, S., Panchenko, N., Tian, X. (2016). Reducing the Functionality Gap Between Auto-Vectorization and Explicit Vectorization. In: Maruyama, N., de Supinski, B., Wahib, M. (eds) OpenMP: Memory, Devices, and Tasks. IWOMP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45550-1_13
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