RFR: Webrev for vectorIntrinsics branch

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 12 Dec 2017, at 23:55, Henry Jen <henry.jen at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I prepared a webrev for what I think belongs to vectorIntrinsics branch, which is to host intrinsic-based vector API implementation. You can review the webrev at
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/panama/vectorIntrinsics/webrev/
> 
> This is base on the snapshot we took from panama/panama on beginning of October, there are quite a few commits after this, which we should be able to apply on top of this repo later.
> 

It would be nice if we could start at a more recent date, but what you have form the JDK side looks fine from that October date.


> Basically it should contains jdk.incubator.vector and hotspot changes for C2 intrinsics. If I understand it correctly, what’s under test/panama/vector-draft-spec are now jdk.incubator.vector, so that can be removed.
> 

Yes.

Paul.

> We will have another vectorSnippets branch to host snippet-based vector API implementation, that should have the rest under test/panama/ except vector-draft-spec.
> 
> Please correct me if above understanding doesn’t make sense to you or any issue in the webrev.
> 
> Cheers,
> Henry
>