On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Eli Friedman wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Chad Rosier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> All,
>> Attached is a patch that enables a per target max vector alignment field 
>> (e.g., 32-byte alignment for x86 due to AVX).  Currently, if no aligned 
>> attribute is specified the alignment of a vector is inferred from its size.  
>> Thus, very large vectors will be over-aligned with no benefit.  With this 
>> patch in place the alignment will be the lesser of the size of the vector 
>> and the target max alignment unless an aligned attribute is used.
> 
> It doesn't seem likely that x86 itself will go beyond 32-byte vectors,
> but this sort of thing is hard to predict; a few years ago, it wasn't
> obvious that x86 was going to introduce vectors with 32-byte
> alignment.

Ok.  Do you have opinion for or against the patch or were you just making a 
general comment?

 Chad

> -Eli

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