JEP proposed to target JDK 25: 508: Vector API (Tenth Incubator)

Mark Reinhold mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon May 19 13:16:07 UTC 2025


2025/5/9 15:10:16 -0400, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 25:
> 
>   508: Vector API (Tenth Incubator)
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/508
> 
>   Summary: Introduce an API to express vector computations that reliably
>   compile at runtime to optimal vector instructions on supported CPUs,
>   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 20:00 UTC on Friday, 16 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 25.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 25.

- Mark


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