rjmccall added a comment.

In D99037#2662414 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99037#2662414>, @fhahn wrote:

> In D99037#2659477 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99037#2659477>, @SaurabhJha 
> wrote:
>
>>> What code do you want to get out of this?  Are there e.g. vectorized 
>>> float->double conversions we can use, or is the operation basically doomed 
>>> to break the matrix apart and put it back together again?
>>
>> I think because matrices are vectors underneath, we should try vectorised 
>> conversions.
>
> I think there should be vector versions of common conversions in most modern 
> vector instruction sets, e.g. both ARM64 and X86 (with varying levels of 
> support, depending on the supported vector extensions) have vector 
> instructions for sign extend i32 -> i64 and floating point extension float -> 
> double: https://godbolt.org/z/jx4Ya4PP5. John, please let me know if you were 
> referring to something else, but IIUC then it would be best to emit vector 
> conversion for the full vector (that should also be the easiest in terms of 
> codegen).

Okay.  In that caae, this may be somewhat verbose because you'll have to 
analyze the element types in IRGen and ask the matrix-lowering code to do the 
appropriate conversion.  Not tricky, just verbose.


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