JEP proposed to target JDK 18: 417: Vector API (Third Incubator)

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2021/9/9 15:14:02 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 18:
> 
>   417: Vector API (Third Incubator)
>        https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/417
> 
>   Summary: Introduce an API to express vector computations that reliably
>   compile at runtime to optimal vector instructions on supported CPU
>   architectures, thus achieving performance superior to equivalent scalar
>   computations.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 16 September, or if they’re raised
> and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
> [2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 18.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 18.

- Mark