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Iceland_jack 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a data compression utility in Haskell usi...

I met Sam Derbyshire at ZuriHac who told me all the difficult architectural work had been done for SIMD support.

+ https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/7741

It might make it for GHC 9.12 (for 128 bit vectors only, and mostly floating-point operations unless other people come in and contribute).

The patch is at:

+ https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/12860

ykonstant 7 months ago [–]

Thanks for the info!

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