LLVM calling convention for AVX2 and AVX512 registers

[Ben Gamari]

Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> writes:

> solution: lets call these registers what they are, instead of pretending
> they're portable. we are not going to find the right abstraction in the
> first go. lets not do that. first get it working sanely, then figure out
> proper abstractions
>
I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting here. Are you
suggesting we rename the types and primops in the Haskell interface?
Some deeper change in semantics? Their treatment in the compiler
backend? Something else entirely?

I'm lost.

Cheers,

- Ben
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