vectorizableloop

noun

UK /ˈvɛktəraɪzəbəl luːp/

US /ˈvɛktəraɪzəbəl lup/

A loop in a computer program that can be made to do many things at once.

The compiler sped up the code because it found a vectorizable loop.

SYNONYMS

parallelizable loop SIMD-friendly loop auto-vectorizable loop data-parallel loop

RELATED WORDS

vectorization compiler SIMD loop unrolling optimization

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A loop whose iterations can be executed independently without changing the result.

The programmer confirmed the vectorizable loop had no cross-iteration dependencies.

3. A loop that a compiler can transform into vector instructions automatically.

GCC flagged the inner vectorizable loop for SIMD code generation.

4. A loop structure suitable for parallel hardware execution.

The GPU kernel relied on a vectorizable loop over the array elements.