I've been trying the the incubating Vector API and one thing I've missed on integer-typed vectors is having unsigned min/max operations. There is a signed min/max operation, and unsigned comparison, but no unsigned min/max.
I guess this is for symmetry with `Math`, which only has signed `min`/`max`. However, I would point out that while it's not very hard to implement one's own unsigned min/max for integer types using `compareUnsigned`, it is a bit harder to do so with vectors. The best I've come up with is to take one of two approaches: 1. Zero-extend the vector to the next-larger size, perform the min/max, and reduce it back down again, or 2. Add <IntType>.MIN_VALUE, min/max with a value or vector also offset by <IntType>.MIN_VALUE, and then subtract the offset again I guess a third approach could be to do a comparison using unsigned compares, and then use the resultant vector mask to select items from the original two vectors, but I didn't bother to work out this solution given I already had the other two options. Would it be feasible to add unsigned min/max operations for vectors? It looks like at least AArch64 has support for this as a single instruction, so it doesn't seem too outlandish. And as a separate (but related) question, what about `Math.minUnsigned`/`Math.maxUnsigned` of `int` and `long` for symmetry? -- - DML • he/him
