<div dir="auto">Splat means to take a single value and build a vector out of identical copies of that value. 4 ->  [4,4,4,4]<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm not sure where the term came from.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 6, 2017 8:08 PM, "陳韋任 via llvm-dev" <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  First of all, I am not native English speaker. While reading BUILD_VECTOR related code, for example,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PPCTargetLowering::LowerBUILD_<wbr>VECTOR, I see "splat" here and there. Could someone explain what</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">it is (does splat mean the same thing across the whole code base)? Besides, from my English dictionary,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I don't know why we call such thing as "splat"... :p</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">chenwj</div>







<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_3769020003712212014gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)<br>Homepage: <a href="https://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj" target="_blank">https://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/<wbr>~chenwj</a></div></div></div>
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