SIMD/SSE support & alignment

[Johan Tibell]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Geoffrey Mainland <mainland at apeiron.net>wrote:

> Unboxed vectors are allocated by GHC, and it does not align memory on
> 16-byte boundaries, so our first cut at SSE intrinsics simply used
> unaligned accesses. Obviously with ForeignPtr's we can control alignment
> and potentially use the aligned variants of SSE instructions, but this
> will almost double the number of primops. One could imagine extending
> our fusion framework to transition to aligned move instructions.
>

When I implemented the memcpy primops I added an optional alignment
parameter (rather than a new primop) to each primop. LLVM uses the same
setup. Perhaps it could work for you?

-- Johan
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