[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3] gcc: Don't disable '-ftree-vectorize' if gcc version higher than 13.

Martin Storsjö martin at martin.st
Thu Jun 12 14:11:33 EEST 2025


On Thu, 12 Jun 2025, Martin Storsjö wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2025, Jiawei wrote:
>
>> This patch modifies the FFmpeg build system to allow gcc use 
>> '-ftree-vectorize'
>> option in newer releases.
>> 
>> Modern GCC versions can be benefit when using the `-ftree-vectorize` flag.
>> Through it can optimizations in loop analysis and SIMD code generation.
>> 
>> Version log:
>>  Only allow GCC versions >= 13 to use -ftree-vectorize.
>>  Modify the commit description.
>> 
>> Disscussion see:
>> https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/project/ffmpeg/patch/20250521061750.54882-1-jiawei@iscas.ac.cn/
>> 
>
> Thanks for removing the somewhat misleading references to AVX, SVE and RVV.
>
> But please do include the references to the earlier reverted attempt at 
> reenabling this - that is key to why this may work better now than it did 
> last time.

And to make it clear: The commit message itself really should contain this 
information, it's not enough to reference information elsewhere on 
patchwork/ML archives for such essential parts of the change.

// Martin


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