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Re: Scatter/Gather vector operations
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: tprince at computer dot org
- Cc: dzonatas at dzonux dot net, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Scatter/Gather vector operations
> dzonatas@dzonux.net wrote:
> I don't see how Altivec has a future.
Why do you say that? Have you looked at what two of the game consoles have? They both
have VMX (aka AltiVec). I see VMX having more of a future than say IA64. I don't understand
why you are putting down one of the best documented instruction set (and best documented language
extensions to the C/C++ language).
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
PS I might be a little biased since I work at Sony on the toolchain, mostly relating to PowerPC work