[bitc-dev] Bitc and Simd

[Tyler Tricker]

I don't really speak for anyone on this but me (I'm even a core dev so it's
perfectly fine to just ignore me :) ). Originally I was just asking a
question about the downfalls in putting SIMD in an external library instead
of trying to put work it into the compiler's optimizer. A similar issue is
found in concurrency in where there seems to be no way to do it 'right'.

Someone must of just figured I had a strong argument for it... I really
don't, but if the language can provide type safety for assembly functions I
figure it would be more flexible than having
fixed built-in Auto-vectorization.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.org>wrote:

> Tyler certainly doesn't speak for me on this, but the L4 guys aren't doing
> much SIMD support in their OS, so I'm not sure what the point of this
> exchange is, exactly.
>
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