RFR: 8370691: Add new Float16Vector type and enable intrinsification of vector operations supported by auto-vectorizer [v3]

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:27:02 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhateja at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> > > Some quick comments.
>>> > > We should be consistent in the naming, and rename `Halfloat*` to `Float16*`.
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > I concur, especially since there are multiple 16-bit floating-point formats in use including the IEEE 754 float16 as well as bfloat16.
>>> 
>>> There are nomenclature issues that I am facing. Currently, all the Float16 concrete classes use the Halffloat prefix i.e., Halffloat64Vector, Halffloat128Vector; converting these to Float16 looks a little confusing, i.e., Float1664Vector, Float16128Vector, etc Kindly suggest a better name to represent these classes.
>> 
>> Maybe we move the shape to the end e.g., `Float16Vector128`, `IntVector128`, `IntVectorMax`?
>
>> > > > Some quick comments.
>> > > > We should be consistent in the naming, and rename `Halfloat*` to `Float16*`.
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > I concur, especially since there are multiple 16-bit floating-point formats in use including the IEEE 754 float16 as well as bfloat16.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > There are nomenclature issues that I am facing. Currently, all the Float16 concrete classes use the Halffloat prefix i.e., Halffloat64Vector, Halffloat128Vector; converting these to Float16 looks a little confusing, i.e., Float1664Vector, Float16128Vector, etc Kindly suggest a better name to represent these classes.
>> 
>> Maybe we move the shape to the end e.g., `Float16Vector128`, `IntVector128`, `IntVectorMax`?
> 
> This looks good, since all these are concrete vector classes not exposed to users.

@jatin-bhateja it looks like you should be merging latest changes from master; Some changes shown in the diff obviously do not belong to this fix:
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/28002/files#diff-7798f606ce2bbf96fd99999c8c0ef9a4bb0455c128dd7e1249dea8db23d35402
Hopefully merging latest changes from master will make them go away?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28002#issuecomment-3571013379