a < b ? a : b; <-- auto vectorizes
std::min(a,b) <-- does not
Another bug report for VS: std::min/max break autovectorization
VS's autovectorizer requires massaging to get anything out of it.
Another quirk: during type conversion, don't skip steps.
For example.
float->i8 //this is skipping the step of converting to i32
float->i32 //An instruction exists for this,
So if you convert float directly to i8, autovectorization fails.
Instead you must convert to i32, and then to i8, now autovectorization succeeds.