On 5 January 2012 22:33, a <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A language defined 128bit SIMD type would be fine for basically all > > architectures. Even though they support different operations on these > > registers, the size and allocation patterns are always the same across > all > > architectures; 128 bits, 16byte aligned, etc. This allows at minimum > > platform independent expression of structures containing simd data, and > > calling of functions passing these types as args. > > You forgot about AVX. It uses 256 bit registers and is supported in new > Intel and AMD processors. >
AVX is another type, a new 256bit type, as double is to float, and should also have a keyword ;)
