[PATCH] D32964: [Doc] Document "Splat" in the lexicon

[Sanjay Patel via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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LGTM. A couple of potential changes, but I leave that to you if you think it's better:

1. A shorter statement:

Splat refers to a vector of identical scalar elements.

2. We could add a sentence for the historical background:

The term is based on the PowerPC Altivec instructions that provided this functionality in hardware. For example, "vsplth" and the corresponding software intrinsic "vec_splat()".


https://reviews.llvm.org/D32964