RFR: 8338021: Support new unsigned and saturating vector operators in VectorAPI [v31]

[Paul Sandoz]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:31:00 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhateja at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Also: why did we not add these `Long.minUnsigned` etc? I guess that was already discussed?
>> Because we can easily also use this with the auto-vectorizer or more generally. Saturating and unsigned ops are generally useful I think...
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> PR is specially targeting explicit vectorization flow, we plan to address scalar intrinsification and auto-vectorization later, once type system has exposure to unsigned types.

We are uncertain about their locations in `java.lang` at the moment. For now it's better to place them under incubation and then revisit later when we are more certain.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20507#discussion_r1815180240