From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: generic vectors: how should they work?
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41372E81.3040105@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409021406.i82E6OO33396@makai.watson.ibm.com>
> Paolo> I don't understand this comment. I see SIMD types as a synonym of
> Paolo> vectors. "Portable vectors", "generic vectors", "portable SIMD types",
> Paolo> "generic SIMD types" seem all synonyms to me.
>
> I thought that I already explained the distinction in the previous
> messages.
If you meant generic vectors as in, arbitrarily sized and/or with a size
decided at run-time, then no, this is not my purpose. GCC portable SIMD
types (this is your nomenclature if I understood) have their size
established at compile-time, and it must be a power of two.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-02 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-01 0:35 Janis Johnson
2004-09-01 2:11 ` David Edelsohn
2004-09-01 7:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2004-09-01 14:49 ` David Edelsohn
2004-09-01 15:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2004-09-01 15:35 ` Giovanni Bajo
2004-09-01 16:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2004-09-01 19:52 ` Richard Henderson
2004-09-01 22:08 ` David Edelsohn
2004-09-02 13:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2004-09-02 14:06 ` David Edelsohn
2004-09-02 14:27 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2004-09-02 18:33 ` Janis Johnson
2004-09-01 23:47 ` Janis Johnson
2004-09-02 17:46 ` Janis Johnson
2004-09-01 20:12 ` James E Wilson
2004-09-01 20:40 ` David Edelsohn
2004-09-01 21:22 ` James E Wilson
2004-09-02 1:07 ` Richard Henderson
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