On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 05:44:46PM +0000, GT wrote: > > This is about the Power binding to some OpenMP API, right? It has > > nothing to do with "vector" or "ABI" -- we have vectors already, and > > we have ABIs already, more than enough of each. > > > > It is very very VERY hard to review this without being told the proper > > setting here. > > What this is about: > > David Edelsohn wanted to have new library functions, one for each of these 6 > single-precision functions: > sinf, cosf, sincosf, expf, logf, powf; and these 6 double-precision functions: > sin, cos, sincos, exp, log, and pow. > > For the single-precision functions, the corresponding new functions would > compute 4 results > simulatneously. For the double-precision functions, the new ones would > compute 2 results > simultaneously. > > x86_64 has already done something very similar so I thought I would adapt as > much of their > documentation and implementation as I could for PPC64. > > Let's start with that. Comments so far?
That sounds like libmvec? I still don't know what this is. Segher
