RFR: 8370691: Add new Float16Vector type and enable intrinsification of vector operations supported by auto-vectorizer [v11]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:22:25 GMT, Fei Yang <fyang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jatin Bhateja has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Adding testpoint for JDK-8373574
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> src/jdk.incubator.vector/share/classes/jdk/incubator/vector/Float16Vector.java line 1653:
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>> 1651:      *
>> 1652:      * @param e the input scalar
>> 1653:      * @return the result of multiplying this vector by the given scalar
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> The code comment mentions "multiplying", which doesn't seem correct to me. Are we doing any multiplication for min/max?

This is the problem in JDK-mainline code also, we should address it separately.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28002#discussion_r2689974123