RFR: 8310691: [REDO] [vectorapi] Refactor VectorShuffle implementation [v8]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:09:33 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhateja at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Quan Anh Mai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   adverb order
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> src/jdk.incubator.vector/share/classes/jdk/incubator/vector/Byte128Vector.java line 822:
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>> 820:         static final Class<Byte> ETYPE = byte.class; // used by the JVM
>> 821: 
>> 822:         Byte128Shuffle(byte[] indices) {
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> We still cannot accommodate all the indexes for the 2048 bit scalable vector for ARM SVE. Max index accommodable is 127 since byte is a signed type with value range b/w [-128 , 127].

This is a limitation and not a blocker for this re-factor.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21042#discussion_r1877524772