[vector] Vector API is integerated

[Viswanathan, Sandhya]

Thanks a lot John! It is very kind of you. It has been a wonderful opportunity to learn from experts and contribute to the advancement of language.

Best Regards,
Sandhya  

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From: John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> 
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 12:21 PM
To: Viswanathan, Sandhya <sandhya.viswanathan at intel.com>
Cc: Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com>; Vladimir Ivanov <vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com>; Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com>; Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>; Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com>; panama-dev at openjdk.java.net' <panama-dev at openjdk.java.net>; Aundhe, Shirish <shirish.aundhe at intel.com>
Subject: Re: [vector] Vector API is integerated

Congratulations, all.  I am ecstatic that we have reached this milestone.  We need a pizza party now!

With full respect and gratitude to the whole team, I do want to call out Sandhya at Intel a little bit here.  Sandhya, you have been on this project continuously since our first collaborative discussions, which I date from a meeting on 3/03/2015.  You took some ideas from some brainstorming we did, and convinced both your team at Intel and the Oracle team that short-vector SIMD programming was a significant opportunity for Java.  Developing the opportunity took a lot of work from a lot of people, and we had to try a bunch of alternatives before we settled on the design we have now (which Valhalla will further adjust).  You and your organization’s vision and tenacity in fostering this large project from Intel, and the creativity and hard work of many stellar engineers (of many organizations and teams), made this possible.  This has been a very fine example of collaboration in the OpenJDK, and I look forward to many more such collaborations in the future.

Thanks!

— John

On Oct 14, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Viswanathan, Sandhya <sandhya.viswanathan at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Congratulations :-). Thanks a lot for guiding us through this process. It has been a wonderful journey, much learned and more things to learn as we go forward.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sandhya
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: panama-dev <panama-dev-retn at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of Paul Sandoz
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 3:55 PM
> To: panama-dev at openjdk.java.net' <panama-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Subject: [vector] Vector API is integerated
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The Vector API is now integrated, as an incubating module, into the main JDK repository. 
> 
> A multi-year multi-org multi-person effort has reached the end of the beginning. Much respect to all involved.
> 
> There is more to do :-)
> 
> Short term, before ramp down phase 1 of JDK 16 [1], we need to sweep up some trailing issues. Jie, Ningsheng, thanks for waiting, feel free to create PRs for x86 AVX-512 and ARM SVE issues against the main repo.
> 
> Longer term there are a few focus areas such as masking, loops with masks, the important connection with Project Valhalla, x86 stubs for transcendental functions, and the ongoing focus on code generation and performance. Contributions of data-parallel algorithms as JMH benchmarks are especially welcome. 
> 
> Paul.
> 
> [1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/