On Mon, 6 Apr 2026 07:55:10 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Add a new Float16lVector type and corresponding concrete vector classes, in >> addition to existing primitive vector types, maintaining operation parity >> with the FloatVector type. >> - Add necessary inline expander support. >> - Enable intrinsification for a few vector operations, namely >> ADD/SUB/MUL/DIV/MAX/MIN/FMA. >> - Use existing Float16 vector IR and backend support. >> - Extended the existing VectorAPI JTREG test suite for the newly added >> Float16Vector operations. >> >> The idea here is to first be at par with Float16 auto-vectorization support >> before intrinsifying new operations (conversions, reduction, etc). >> >> The following are the performance numbers for some of the selected >> Float16Vector benchmarking kernels compared to equivalent auto-vectorized >> Float16OperationsBenchmark kernels. >> >> <img width="1344" height="532" alt="image" >> src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c8157c3c-22b0-4bc1-9de9-7a68cadb7b2a"; >> /> >> >> Initial RFP[1] was floated on the panama-dev mailing list. >> >> Kindly review the draft PR and share your feedback. >> >> Best Regards, >> Jatin >> >> [1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2025-August/021100.html > > Jatin Bhateja has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a > merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 49 commits: > > - Post merge fixes > - Merge branch 'master' of http://github.com/openjdk/jdk into JDK-8370691 > - Merge branch 'master' of http://github.com/openjdk/jdk into JDK-8370691 > - Fix float16 handling for toIntegralChecked routine, some other cleanups > - Merge branch 'master' of http://github.com/openjdk/jdk into JDK-8370691 > - More cleanups > - Merge branch 'master' of http://github.com/openjdk/jdk into JDK-8370691 > - Merge branch 'master' of http://github.com/openjdk/jdk into JDK-8370691 > - More cleanups > - Merge branch 'master' of http://github.com/openjdk/jdk into JDK-8370691 > - ... and 39 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/1d290109...c95e3c6e src/jdk.incubator.vector/share/classes/jdk/incubator/vector/Float16Vector.java line 52: > 50: /** > 51: * A specialized {@link Vector} representing an ordered immutable > sequence of > 52: * {@code short} values. I’m not sure whether this has been discussed and decided before, but should we use “sequence of Float16 values” instead of “short”? ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28002#discussion_r3061332861
