Do we need to maintain PrimRep.VecRep?

[Geoffrey Mainland]

VecRep is used for vector operations. If you aren't using LLVM, you
won't see them.

VecRep's are generated by utils/genprimopcode/Main.hs.

Check out compiler/stage1/build/primop-vector-tys.hs-incl in your build
tree---should be plenty of generated VecRep's there :)

Cheers,
Geoff

On 06/07/2016 05:00 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
> I have some code that does things depending on PrimReps of terms and so I have
> to handle VecRep there. To understand what VecRep exactly is and how to use it I
> looked at its uses, and all I can find was that we have a wired-in DataCon
> `vecRepDataCon` which has a type that I thought should have VecRep PrimRep, but
> when I test in GHCi I see that its PrimRep is PtrRep:
>
>     λ> map typePrimRep (map dataConRepType (tyConDataCons runtimeRepTyCon))
>     [PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep,PtrRep]
>
> (This DataCon is not exported and only used in runtimeRepTyCon)
>
> So I think VecRep may not be in use at the moment. Do we still need to maintain
> it? What's the use case? Can anyone show me a Core term that has a type whose
> PrimRep is VecRep?
>
> Thanks..
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