[llvm-dev] Scalable Vector Types in IR - Next Steps?

[Finkel, Hal J. via llvm-dev]

On 3/15/19 10:58 AM, David Greene wrote:
> Renato Golin <rengolin at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 15:30, Finkel, Hal J. via llvm-dev
>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>> I've talked with a number of people about this as well, and I think that
>>> I understand the objections. I'm happy that ARM followed through with
>>> the alternate set of patches. Regardless, however, unless those who had
>>> wished to object still wish to object, and then actually do so, we now
>>> clearly have a good collection of contributors actively desiring to do
>>> code review, and we should move forward (i.e., start committing patches
>>> once they're judged ready).
>> Let's start by closing the three flying revisions, so that people that
>> weren't involved in the discussion don't waste time looking at them.
> See the reply I just posted to Hal.  I am not sure we've made a decision
> to abandon the current patches.  We may in fact decide that, but I
> haven't seen consensus for doing so yet.  In fact I've seen the opposite
> -- that people want to move forward with the scalable types.


I agree with David. We should move forward with native support for
scalable types.

 -Hal

>
>                        -David

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Hal Finkel
Lead, Compiler Technology and Programming Languages
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory