[GHC] #7741: Add SIMD support to x86/x86_64 NCG

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#7741: Add SIMD support to x86/x86_64 NCG
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        Reporter:  shelarcy          |            Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |           Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |        Milestone:  7.8.1
       Component:  Compiler          |          Version:  7.7
      Resolution:                    |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Test Case:                    |       Blocked By:
        Blocking:                    |  Related Tickets:  #3557
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Comment (by carter):

 Assuming I have  time over the  coming months to cleanup the native
 codegen, this is one major subtask I hope to do.  (For a number of
 reasons, we really need to have feature parity on ncg and llvm backends)

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