Re: LLVM calling convention for AVX2 and AVX512 registers

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

Carter Schonwald writes:

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No matter *how* ghc ultimately bundles simd for high level programming, it *will* have to bottom out into these target specific operations at code gen time, and LLVM is *not* an abstraction for it.

I am very interested to hear what you mean by this; please do elaborate.

I'm a bit puzzled by this, as this is pretty much the exact kind of abstraction LLVM is intended for as I understand it. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net