LLVM calling convention for AVX2 and AVX512 registers

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:

> Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > No matter *how* ghc ultimately bundles simd for high level
> > programming, it *will* have to bottom out into these target specific
> > operations at code gen time, and LLVM is *not* an abstraction for it.
> >
> I am very interested to hear what you mean by this; please do elaborate.
>

I'm a bit puzzled by this, as this is pretty much the exact kind of
abstraction LLVM is intended for as I understand it.

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