Vector performance

[Walter Bright]

On 1/10/2012 6:39 AM, Manu wrote:
> On 10 January 2012 16:31, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
> <mailto:bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>> wrote:
>
>     Manu:
>
>      > Imagine if all vector code throughout was using the vector hardware nicely,
>      > and not just one or 2 key functions...
>
>     Is Walter adding types/ops for 256 bit YMM registers too? (AVX2 is not here
>     yet, but AVX is).
>
>
> Eventually.
> I don't think we need to do that until we have gotten the API right though.

Right. We'll see how the 128 bit SIMD works out before doing the work to extend it.