[LLVMdev] Other Intrinsics?

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Wed Nov 28 09:59:15 PST 2007


On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Zack Rusin wrote:
>> intrinsics.  IOW, if llvm.sin.v4f32 ends up being 4 calls to sinf, why not
>> encode 4 calls to sinf in the bytecode?
>
> Some of the hardware that we target has extensive support for these. Granted
> that instead of overloading llvm.sin and others for my vectors it'd be nicer
> to just have llvm.sin that accepts arbitrary vectors but it's still useful.

Ok, if there is hardware with support for it, then I agree it makes sense 
to keep them,

-Chris

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