Re: SIMD

2015-04-13 Thread Dominic Steinitz
Hi Geoff, Thanks for the update. I found this https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20141020 > Geoff Mainland stepped up and fixed Data Parallel Haskell to work with a new > version of vector and GHC. Austin had disabled DPH a few weeks prior due to > its difficulty to upgrade, and diver

RE: SIMD

2015-04-12 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Geoff Mainland is the originator of the SIMD instruction set work. Let’s see what he says. Simon From: Glasgow-haskell-users [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Dominic Steinitz Sent: 11 April 2015 17:45 To: GHC users Subject: SIMD What’s the story with this? I tri

Re: SIMD

2015-04-11 Thread Carter Schonwald
indeed, dont use it. the current design is only -fllvm, and the choice in api is exactly the wrong one for those who actually want to use SIMD correctly If you want to use Simd today, write C code and ffi call it! https://github.com/wellposed/vector-vectorized is an example effort I did nearly 2

Re: SIMD

2015-04-11 Thread David Feuer
Last I heard, it was extremely experimental and somewhat broken. Carter was working on some of the worst problems, but he's been kind of busy. On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Dominic Steinitz wrote: > What’s the story with this? I tried to follow the instructions here: > https://ghc.haskell.or