VectorAPI reduction operation support for testing infrastructure

[Halimi, Jean-Philippe]

Perfect. Thanks for your help. I'll go ahead and merge the patch as is, and then I'll submit another patch later for review.

Jp

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sandoz [mailto:paul.sandoz at oracle.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 3:03 PM
To: Halimi, Jean-Philippe <jean-philippe.halimi at intel.com>
Cc: panama-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: VectorAPI reduction operation support for testing infrastructure

Hi,

> On Mar 30, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Halimi, Jean-Philippe <jean-philippe.halimi at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
>  
> Thanks for the clarification. My suggestion is the following:
>  
> 1.       To be honest I am not 100% sure of how you want to do what you recommend for the reduction support. I understand that you can factorize the reductions with one generic operation since we use associative reductions operations, but since you need to get the vector elements, you would need to get a few elements.

Perhaps it’s easier to explain if i present a patch, that will also prove to myself it can be done rather than thinking in the abstract :-)


> 2.       I understand your comment about inner loop iterations and I can make a patch that will support that.

Ok!

Paul.