Hi Mark, > On 18 Feb 2020, at 15:41, Mark Borgerding <[email protected]> wrote: > > Caveat: I'm an interested but mostly ignorant observer. > > > It seems to me like the clang/llvm developers may want to work on a > `eigen_clang` fork in order to utilize the testing and benchmark code of > Eigen. > > Showcasing against baseline Eigen would provide an important data point > for the "so what?" question that all projects must face. > > It would also provide a testing baseline. I'm sure there would need to > be additional tests specific to the domain of compilers. >
> > I think that baseline Eigen vs. the clang/llvm matrix support could be > the sort of friendly rivalry that benefits both sides (and subsequently > all users). Agreed. To avoid any confusion I’d like to re-iterate that the matrix extension is not intended to replace libraries like Eigen, but to help simplify & improve on cases where developers currently would have to use target-specific intrinsics/ext_vector_type to get optimal performance. Cheers, Florian
