simd branch ready for review

[Alexander Kjeldaas]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Geoffrey Mainland <mainland at apeiron.net>wrote:
>
>> What would a sensible fallback be for AVX instructions? What should we
>> fall back on when the LLVM backend is not being used?
>>
>
> Depends on the instruction. A 256-bit multiply could be replaced by N
> multiplies etc. For popcount we have a little bit of C code in ghc-prim
> that we use if SSE 4.2 isn't enabled. An alternative is to emit some
> different assembly in e.g. the x86-64 backend if AVX isn't enabled.
>

The currently widest registers are 512 bits on Intel Phi.  AVX is designed
to handle 1024-bit wide registers (there's an unused bit in the VEX prefix).

Alexander
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