About JEP 338: Vector API

[Paul Sandoz]

Nicely done!

Challenge: support control flow, translating to the use of masks.

Not bad, far from good :-) Not a criticism of what you did, but a criticism of how you had to do it. The Java platform can do a much better job making easier for you to do this kind of thing.

Paul.

> On Feb 10, 2021, at 2:22 PM, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
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> 
> De: "Paul Sandoz" <paul.sandoz at oracle.com>
> À: "Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>
> Cc: "b lacombe" <b.lacombe at lug.com>, "panama-dev at openjdk.java.net'" <panama-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 10 Février 2021 19:11:47
> Objet: Re: About JEP 338: Vector API
> Hi Remi,
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> Thanks for pointing out it can be done using serialization, and people do that, since that is what's currently possible. I think it's problematic and we can do much better.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> It's not that awful :)
> Enjoy https://github.com/forax/vector-handle
> 
> It should perform well but i've not done any perf tests.
> And obviously, i've not implemented all the operations, only +, -, * and /, feel free to do some pull requests.
> 
> Rémi