| From: | mef |
| Date: | 12 Sep 2000 at 02:15:39 |
| Subject: | RE: AMIOPEN: has anyone run SPEC benchmark using VP?] |
Jesse McClusky writes:
>3D-Now is AMD. SIMD is Intel.
Speaking of which. Does anyone have an idea of how one might "enhance" the
VP architecture description to include some sort of vector instructions?
My thought here is that a translator that is aware of the native processor
enhancements, such as AMD's 3D-Now or Motorola's Altivec for the PowerPC,
could then "maybe" produce those native instructions from the VP-vector
instructions. This, of course, would require that people code up various
routines directly in VP assembler, as I am not aware of GCC or any other
compiler doing this automatically for you.
Hmmmm.... then again, maybe this isn't such a great idea, as I suppose
rather than doing this all at the VP level, people will simply provide
"native" tools that are fine tuned to a particular architecture's features.
Marc
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