[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR (XXL): 8223347: Integration of Vector API (Incubator): AArch64 backend changes

[Andrew Haley]

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On 29/06/2020 08:48, Yang Zhang wrote:
> 1. Instructions that can be matched with NEON instructions directly.
> MulVB, SqrtVF and AbsV have been merged into jdk master already.
> 
> 2. Instructions that jdk master has middle end support for, but they cannot be matched with NEON instructions directly.
> Such as AddReductionVL, MulReductionVL, And/Or/XorReductionV These new instructions can be moved into jdk master first, but for auto-vectorization, the performance might not get improved. 
> 
> 3. Panama/Vector API specific  instructions such as Load/StoreVector ( 16 bits), VectorReinterpret, VectorMaskCmp, MaxV/MinV, VectorBlend etc. 
> These instructions cannot be moved into jdk master first because there isn't middle-end support.
> 
> I will put 2 and 3 in a new ad file aarch64_neon.ad. I will also update aarch64_asmtest.py and macroassemler.cpp. When the patch is ready, I will send it again.

Thank you *very* much for your hard work. Appreciated!

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