[libre-riscv-dev] rust llvm intrinsic vector support

Jacob Lifshay programmerjake at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 21:04:32 BST 2018


On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 08:08 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> hi jacob,
>
> occurred to me that it might be a good idea to reach out to the rust
> dev team to see whether they're happy to put vectorisation support
> into llvm.  that does mean there's a dependency of actually having the
> variable-length vector intrinsic in the llvm front-end.  must also
> ping alex bradbury and the other person about that.
>

Ok. Note that for the vulkan implementation I am thinking of jit-compiling
all the performance-critical code so having simd exposed in rust is not
critical.

Jacob

>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/attachments/20181002/12755171/attachment.html>


More information about the libre-riscv-dev mailing list