[LLVMdev] Haswell New Instructions

[David A. Greene]

"Nicolas Capens" <nicolas.capens at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Intel has just revealed its AVX2 instruction set, to be supported by the 2013 Haswell architecture, and it's looking quite
> revolutionary: http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=83399&o=a&s=lr

Hooray!

But boo!  No 64-bit integer multiply yet.  :(

In any case, once I get the major AVX changes in, it should be almost
trivial to add HNI support.  I've got some more patches ready to go in
ASAP.  We're very close to sending "the big one" up.  :)

                              -Dave