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

[Paul Sandoz]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:25:34 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhateja at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > The basic type codes are declared and shared across Java and HotSpot - it's used in `LaneType`. Can we pass a single argument that is the basic type instead of two arguments. HotSpot should know from the basic type what the carrier class and also what the operation type without it being explicitly told, since presumably it knew the inverse - the basic type from the element class.
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> Hi @PaulSandoz, T_HALFFLOAT used in LaneType is mainly used for differentiation of various cache keys used by conversion operation lookups. In principle, we can extend VM to acknowledge this new custom basic type on the lines of T_METADATA / T_ADDRESS; its scope for now will be restricted to VectorSupport. We can gradually expose this to C2 type, such that TypeVect for all Float16 VectorIR uses T_HALFFLOAT as its basic type; currently, we use T_SHORT as the lane type. Let me know if this looks reasonable

I am proposing something simpler, really as a temporary step until `Float16` becomes part of the `java.base` module. IIUC from the basic type we can reliably determine what the two arguments we currently passing are e.g.,  T_HALFFLOAT = { short.class, VECTOR_TYPE_FP16 }. So we don't need to pass two arguments, we can just pass one, the intrinsic can lookup the class and operation type kind.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28002#issuecomment-3529452461