Scatter/Gather vector operations

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Tim Prince wrote:
> Do you want the GPU of the future to look so much like the Convex or 
> Cray vector machines of the past?   If you persuade enough people, it 
> might happen.  It doesn't necessarily pay off, if it does nothing but 
> embed [un]packing in microcode.
Hehe...

Consider the outlook of technology now, x8086 demo for example. There is 
a good chance the vector ops will be more of a superset of instructions 
rather than a subset, as they are with Opteron, Xeon, Pentium, etc. I'd 
imagine the vector ops can easily have a dynamic stride by then with any 
available processor on a parallel core to execute the next element until 
all elements done. =)

Thanks for your insight

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