Possible API for vector operations: did you seen ForwardCompatible Arhitecture?

[Lev Serebryakov]

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 I've watched Ian Graves' talk
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XgO1H6xPM) about all these problems
how to express vector operations in Java platform-agnostic (different
length of vectors, for example).

 And one thing jump to my mind: here is proposal of new ISA from Agner
Fog (very well-known expert at x86 platform and all x86
implementations). And this ISA has very elegant solution for forward-
and backward- compatible vector operations, where native vector length
could be different from chip to chip, but same binary code will use
given vector unit effectively without additional branches, checks, etc.

 I don't say, that Java Vector API should mimic some "hardware"
architecture, but this idea about abstracting-out vector length is
very elegant and could be useful.

 Latest version of ISA:
http://www.agner.org/optimize/instructionset.pdf, looks at paragraphs
2.4-2.6

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