VECTORISE is for Data Parallel Haskell. It's only relevant to GHC's internal vectorisation pass - I don't actually think there is any use case for it in user code at the moment, it's only used by the DPH libraries/special prelude, etc.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Henning Thielemann <schlepp...@henning-thielemann.de> wrote: > On 09.08.2011 22:01, Ian Lynagh wrote: >> >> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.2.1. >> >> The 7.2 branch is intended to be more of a "technology preview" than >> normal GHC stable branches; in particular, it supports a significantly >> improved version of DPH, as well as new features such as compiler >> plugins and "safe Haskell". The design of these new features may evolve >> as we get more experience with them. See the release notes for more >> details of what's new and what's changed. > > These sound like a lot of exciting news. The release notes also mention a > VECTORISE pragma, that is not mentioned in > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/pragmas.html > and not in the index. Is it about the planned GHC support for SSE/AltiVec > vector units or is it about DPH? > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- Regards, Austin _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe