VectorAPI min and max intrinsics

[Paul Sandoz]

Hi,

I notice you have adjusted the the Vector Java implementations to differ from the the java.lang.Math.min/max implementations (<= to < etc) (for the floating point types i intended to adjust to call Math.min/max). 

Ideally it would be best to align with Math.min/max behaviour if at all possible at least for the integral types. For the FP types i am unsure about how the instructions deal with NaNs and -0.0 and +0.0.

Can you describe the semantics of the vector instructions so i can compare with Math.min/max?

Thanks,
Paul.


> On Apr 16, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Rukmannagari, Shravya <shravya.rukmannagari at intel.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I would like to contribute a patch  adding support for vector Intrinsics for Vector API min and max functions for all the datatypes.
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> Could you please review the patch here: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~srukmannagar/VectorAPI_minMax/webrev.01/
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> Regards,
> 
> Shravya.
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