[vectorIntrinsics+fp16] RFR: 8290204: FP16 initial backend implementation [v5]

[Smita Kamath]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 16:19:52 GMT, Bhavana Kilambi <bkilambi at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi Bhavana, apologies for the delay in responding to your comment. The code to stitch everything together will be added later.
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> Hi Smitha, one more question - Since HalfFloat is not primitive datatype, the check to make sure the elem_type is primitive type might fail in LibraryCallKit::inline_vector_nary_operation(int n). Will you also be handling this? Or will this PR be merged after Valhalla integration when halffloat becomes a primitive class?

Hi Bhavana, we plan to explore this after the integration of this PR.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-vector/pull/204