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Lu (hjl.tools@gmail.com)" Subject: RE: [RFC] Rationale for passing vectors by value in SIMD registers Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: <6D39441BF12EF246A7ABCE6654B023534A2E01@LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org> References: <6D39441BF12EF246A7ABCE6654B023534A1937@LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SEF-Processed: 7_3_0_01192__2014_02_15_08_17_53 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00227.txt.bz2 PiBPbiBGcmksIEZlYiAxNCwgMjAxNCBhdCAyOjE3IEFNLCBNYXR0aGV3IEZv cnR1bmUNCj4gPE1hdHRoZXcuRm9ydHVuZUBpbWd0ZWMuY29tPiB3cm90ZToN Cj4gPiBNSVBTIGlzIGN1cnJlbnRseSBldmFsdWF0aW5nIHRoZSBiZW5lZml0 IG9mIHVzaW5nIFNJTUQgcmVnaXN0ZXJzIHRvIHBhc3MNCj4gdmVjdG9yIGRh dGEgYnkgdmFsdWUuIEl0IGlzIGN1cnJlbnRseSB1bmNsZWFyIGhvdyBpbXBv cnRhbnQgaXQgaXMgZm9yIHZlY3RvciBkYXRhDQo+IHRvIGJlIHBhc3NlZCBp biBTSU1EIHJlZ2lzdGVycy4gSS5lLiB0aGUgbmVlZCBmb3IgcGFzc2luZyB2 ZWN0b3IgZGF0YSBieSB2YWx1ZQ0KPiBpbiByZWFsIHdvcmxkIGNvZGUgaXMg 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