[LLVMdev] Vector code

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Fri May 9 21:43:34 PDT 2008


On May 9, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Devang Patel <dpatel at apple.com> wrote:
>> On May 9, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Mike Stump <mrs at apple.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, but you can use any intrinsic that is target independent....   
>>> The
>>> gcc vector stuff is meant to work on all targets as I recall.
>>
>> Do you mean GCC has target independent vector intrinsics?
>>
>
> Yes, it does.

FWIW, LLVM IR supports a broad superset of them and has first class  
support for permutation, insertion, extraction, etc.

-Chris



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