JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 448: Vector API (Sixth Incubator)

Mark Reinhold mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Thu May 11 11:38:23 UTC 2023


2023/5/2 9:24:19 -0400, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 21:
> 
>   448: Vector API (Sixth Incubator)
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/448
> 
>   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 Tuesday, 9 May, 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 21.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 21.

- Mark


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