RFR: 8342095: Add autovectorizer support for subword vector casts [v2]

Thu Feb 6 17:35:57 UTC 2025

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:30:41 GMT, Emanuel Peter <epeter at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jasmine Karthikeyan has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Implement widening and address comments from review
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> Great work, looks generally amazing 😊 
> 
> I left a few comments below.

@eme64 I've pushed a new version that implements widening, as well as modifies the unit tests to use the new `Generators` framework. I've also filed [JDK-8349562](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8349562) as followup work for `char` types. Let me know what you think!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23413#issuecomment-2640547848