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Re: SIMD support (was Re: [tree-ssa] Minor update for project web page- vectorization)
- From: "Dorit Naishlos" <DORIT at il dot ibm dot com>
- To: Martin Brain <mjb at cs dot bath dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 23:54:04 +0300
- Subject: Re: SIMD support (was Re: [tree-ssa] Minor update for project web page- vectorization)
Martin Brain wrote in
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00469.html:
"
In relation to this I'm looking at working on extending the current SIMD
support offered by GCC and the provision of information on the hardware
to the rest of the compiler.
[...]
5. Try to develop a system that can be used in other parts of the
compile (IE the autovectoriser) to work out the cost of various vector
operations (IE if hardware support is available).
"
Great! that would take care of the target description interfaces for the
vectorizer (especially item 5 on your list).
thanks,
dorit