JEP proposed to target JDK 26: 529: Vector API (Eleventh Incubator)

[Mark Reinhold]

2025/10/30 14:23:12 -0400, Mark Reinhold:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 26:
>
>   529: Vector API (Eleventh Incubator)
>      https://openjdk.org/jeps/529
>
>   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 Thursday, 6 November, 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 26.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 26.

- Mark