Al compilar congcc -O3, ¿por qué el siguiente bucle no se vectoriza (automáticamente):

#define SIZE (65536)

int a[SIZE], b[SIZE], c[SIZE];

int foo () {
  int i, j;

  for (i=0; i<SIZE; i++){
    for (j=i; j<SIZE; j++) {
      a[i] = b[i] > c[j] ? b[i] : c[j];
    }
  }
  return a[0];
}

cuando el siguiente lo hace?

#define SIZE (65536)

int a[SIZE], b[SIZE], c[SIZE];

int foov () {
  int i, j;

  for (i=0; i<SIZE; i++){
    for (j=i; j<SIZE; j++) {
      a[i] += b[i] > c[j] ? b[i] : c[j];
    }
  }
  return a[0];
}

La única diferencia es si el resultado de la expresión en el bucle interno esasignado a una [i], o agregado a una [i].

Para referencia-ftree-vectorizer-verbose=6 da la siguiente salida para el primer bucle (no vectorizante).

v.c:8: note: not vectorized: inner-loop count not invariant.
v.c:9: note: Unknown alignment for access: c
v.c:9: note: Alignment of access forced using peeling.
v.c:9: note: not vectorized: live stmt not supported: D.2700_5 = c[j_20];

v.c:5: note: vectorized 0 loops in function.

Y la misma salida para el bucle que vectoriza es:

v.c:8: note: not vectorized: inner-loop count not invariant.
v.c:9: note: Unknown alignment for access: c
v.c:9: note: Alignment of access forced using peeling.
v.c:9: note: vect_model_load_cost: aligned.
v.c:9: note: vect_model_load_cost: inside_cost = 1, outside_cost = 0 .
v.c:9: note: vect_model_simple_cost: inside_cost = 1, outside_cost = 1 .
v.c:9: note: vect_model_reduction_cost: inside_cost = 1, outside_cost = 6 .
v.c:9: note: cost model: prologue peel iters set to vf/2.
v.c:9: note: cost model: epilogue peel iters set to vf/2 because peeling for alignment is unknown .
v.c:9: note: Cost model analysis:
  Vector inside of loop cost: 3
  Vector outside of loop cost: 27
  Scalar iteration cost: 3
  Scalar outside cost: 7
  prologue iterations: 2
  epilogue iterations: 2
  Calculated minimum iters for profitability: 8

v.c:9: note:   Profitability threshold = 7

v.c:9: note: Profitability threshold is 7 loop iterations.
v.c:9: note: LOOP VECTORIZED.
v.c:5: note: vectorized 1 loops in function.