[LLVMdev] Misunderstanding vector

Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Mon Sep 22 05:29:13 PDT 2008


> > The code generator cannot handle vectors with more than 16383 (?)
> > elements.  Even so, I'm not sure it makes much sense to use vectors
> > with more than a handful of elements.
> 
> I understood Chris to say that these instructions were for SIMD
> machines, and if the limit you mention applies to SIMD I'm not worried.
> Does that limit also apply to arrays?

No it doesn't, it is vector specific.  There may be limits on arrays, but
I don't know what they are.

Ciao,

Duncan.



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