perf: add contiguous fast path to complex add/subtract fallback loop

[intel-python-devops]

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• mkl_umath/src/mkl_umath_loops.c.src: in the complex-type add/subtract loop (CFLOAT_add, CFLOAT_subtract, CDOUBLE_add, CDOUBLE_subtract), added an else if (contig) branch between the pairwise-sum reduction case and the generic BINARY_LOOP fallback. When inputs/output are contiguous but the array is below VML_ASM_THRESHOLD (or otherwise ineligible for the oneMKL call), the new branch walks the real and imaginary components as one flat run of 2n ftype elements with a plain indexed loop under NPY_PRAGMA_VECTOR, instead of the char-stepped BINARY_LOOP that dereferences real/imag through pointer casts one complex element at a time.

Complex add/subtract previously fell through to the fully strided BINARY_LOOP for every call that misses the oneMKL threshold, even when both inputs and the output are contiguous and simply too small (or overlapping) for the VML call — exactly the case hit repeatedly by workloads like the Mandelbrot kernel's np.add(Z, C, Z) as the working array shrinks below VML_ASM_THRESHOLD each iteration. Since +/- is applied strictly componentwise in the same forward element order as the original loop, flattening real/imag into one typed-array loop is bit-for-bit identical for every stride, overlap and special-value case, but gives the compiler a much better shot at autovectorizing than pointer-cast access through char* increments. The ASV micro-benchmarks only exercise unary float32/float64 ufuncs above the oneMKL threshold, so this path is not directly covered there; BenchMandelbrot2 in the npbench suite is the closest exercised proxy, since it repeatedly calls np.add/np.multiply on shrinking complex128 arrays, many iterations of which fall below the 100000-element VML_ASM_THRESHOLD for complex add.

[jharlow-intel]

unsure if auto-generated PRs like this should be putting these changes into the CHANGELOG or not. Thoughts?

[ndgrigorian]

unsure if auto-generated PRs like this should be putting these changes into the CHANGELOG or not. Thoughts?

Tough call, I would say ideally yes but I would want to make sure we have some kind of anti-AI-slop-text skill or guard before that

[antonwolfy]

Wrong results for complex accumulate/cumsum in GCC builds.

What NumPy sends this branch:

• np.add.accumulate and np.cumsum call the inner loop with out = in1 + 1 element and all strides contiguous (NumPy v2.5.3 ufunc_object.c L3043–3078).
• So contig is 1 and can_vectorize is 0. That lands in the new branch, where each output depends on the result two scalars earlier.

Why that breaks under GCC:

• NPY_PRAGMA_VECTOR becomes #pragma GCC ivdep, which promises the compiler there is no such dependency. GCC then drops its runtime overlap check: -fopt-info-vec shows the new loop vectorized with no versioning, while the old loop was "versioned … because of possible aliasing".
• The three existing uses of this pragma (lines 355, 514, 668) all run behind DISJOINT_OR_SAME checks. fast_loop_macros.h:205 says ivdep must only be used after that kind of check. The new comment itself says operands may be "overlapping".

The repro: a GCC build of the PR gives mkl_umath.add.accumulate on complex64 [1..8] = [1, 3, -3.62, 0.38, 5, 11, 7, 15]. Expected is [1, 3, 6, 10, …]. The result includes uninitialized output memory, so it's nondeterministic.

Shipped builds use icx, so they're fine today. But meson.build accepts GCC, the README says "a C compiler", and a plain pip install . on Linux would use GCC.

Suggested change

	else if (contig) {
	else if (can_vectorize) {

This matches the other three pragma sites and the overlap guard NumPy itself uses before its fast path. It still covers np.add(Z, C, Z).

[antonwolfy]

We need a real benchmark numbers in the PR before it merges, including both out-of-place with no overlap and in-place paths

[antonwolfy]

The PR text and code comment don't match what was measured:

• "Bit-for-bit identical for every stride, overlap…": false.
• "Lets the compiler autovectorize": only true for complex64. For complex128, icx reports "seems inefficient" and only unrolls the loop. This adds 2 new -Wpass-failed warnings for the CDOUBLE add and subtract loops.
• No measurements: the PR gives no benchmark numbers.
• np.add(Z, C, Z) isn't an overlap case: the output is the same array as an input, which can_vectorize already allows.

[antonwolfy]

Missing tests coverage for the new branch

[antonwolfy]

Suggested change

	const @ftype@ *ip1 = (@ftype@ *)args[0];
	const @ftype@ *ip2 = (@ftype@ *)args[1];
	@ftype@ *op1 = (@ftype@ *)args[2];
	const @ftype@ *ip1 = (const @ftype@ *)args[0];
	const @ftype@ *ip2 = (const @ftype@ *)args[1];
	@ftype@ *op1 = (const @ftype@ *)args[2];

[antonwolfy]

Need to populate the changelog