CodeCompositionIneffective

Description

The pattern "Code composition - inefficient instructions" describes the usage of one kind of instructions although there exists a better kind, e.g. scalar vs. vectorized FP instructions.

Symptoms

Like Instruction Overhead.

For a piece of high-level code, the compiler outputs a lot of instructions although is could be done in less. One common example are non-vectorized instructions.

Detection

For code with FP arithmetic, check whether scalar instructions are dominating in data parallel loops.

LIKWID groups: FLOPS_DP, FLOPS_SP (see vectorization ratio)

Possible optimizations and/or fixes

• Try to give hints to the compiler so that it can use the more efficient instructions. (E.g. #pragma simd)
• Reorganize access pattern
• Avoid loop carried dependecies