[^vsx_vec_regs]: VSX's Vector Registers are mis-named: they are 100% PackedSIMD. AVX-512 is not a Vector ISA either. See [Flynn's Taxonomy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn%27s_taxonomy)
[^ppc_mma]: Power ISA v3.1 contains "Matrix Multiply Assist" (MMA) which due to PackedSIMD is restricted to RADIX2 and requires inline assembler loop-unrolling for non-power-of-two Matrix dimensions
[^neon_opcodes]: difficult to ascertain, see [NEON/VFP](https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0018/a/NEON-and-VFP-Instruction-Summary/List-of-all-NEON-and-VFP-instructions).
- Critically depends on ARM Scalar instructions
+ Critically depends on ARM Scalar instructions
[^sve2_opcodes]: difficult to exactly ascertain, see ARM Architecture Reference Manual Supplement, DDI 0584. Critically depends on ARM Scalar instructions.
[^sve2_no_setvl]: ARM states that the Scalability is a [Silicon-partner choice](https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Arm%20Developer%20Community/PDF/102340_0001_00_en_introduction-to-sve2.pdf?revision=aae96dd2-5334-4ad3-9a47-393086a20fea).
- Scalability in the ISA is **not available to the programmer**: there is no `setvl` instruction in SVE2, which is already causing assembler programmer difficulties.
- [quote](https://gist.github.com/zingaburga/805669eb891c820bd220418ee3f0d6bd#file-sve2-md) **"you may be stuck with only using the bottom 128 bits of the vector, or need to code specifically for each width"**
+ Scalability in the ISA is **not available to the programmer**: there is no `setvl` instruction in SVE2, which is already causing assembler programmer difficulties.
+ [quote](https://gist.github.com/zingaburga/805669eb891c820bd220418ee3f0d6bd#file-sve2-md) **"you may be stuck with only using the bottom 128 bits of the vector, or need to code specifically for each width"**
[^avx512_wikipedia]: [AVX512 Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512), [Lifecycle of an instruction set](https://media.handmade-seattle.com/tom-forsyth/) including full slides
[^avx512_opcodes]: difficult to exactly ascertain, contains subsets. Critically depends on ISA support from earlier x86 ISA subsets (several more thousand instructions). See [SIMD ISA listing](https://www.officedaytime.com/simd512e/)
[^rvv_spec]: [RVV Spec](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/master/v-spec.adoc)
[^rvv_opcodes]: RISC-V Vectors are not stand-alone, i.e. like SVE2 and AVX-512 are critically dependent on the Scalar ISA (an additional ~96 instructions for the Scalar RV64GC set, needed for Linux).
[^rvv_scalable]: Like the original Cray RVV is a truly scalable Vector ISA (Cray setvl instruction). However, like SVE2, the Maximum Vector length is a Silicon-partner choice, which creates similar limitations that SVP64 does not have.
- The RISC-V Founders strongly discourage efforts by programmers to find out the Silicon's Maximum Vector Length, as an effort to steer programmers towards Silicon-independent assembler. This requires **all** algorithms to contain a loop construct.
- MAXVL in SVP64 is a Spec-hard-fixed quantity therefore loop constructs are not necessary 100% of the time.
+ The RISC-V Founders strongly discourage efforts by programmers to find out the Silicon's Maximum Vector Length, as an effort to steer programmers towards Silicon-independent assembler. This requires **all** algorithms to contain a loop construct.
+ MAXVL in SVP64 is a Spec-hard-fixed quantity therefore loop constructs are not necessary 100% of the time.
[^rvv_128]: like SVP64 it is up to the hardware implementor (Silicon partner) to choose whether to support 128-bit elements.
[^sx_aurora]: [NEC SX Aurora](https://ftp.libre-soc.org/NEC_SX_Aurora_TSUBASA_VectorEngine-as-manual-v1.2.pdf) is based on the original Cray Vectors
[^aurora_isa]: [Aurora ISA guide](https://sxauroratsubasa.sakura.ne.jp/documents/guide/pdfs/Aurora_ISA_guide.pdf) Appendix-3 11.1 p508
[^aurora_scalable]: Like the original Cray Vectors, the ISA Vector Length is independent of the underlying hardware, however Generation 1 has 256 elements per Vector register (3.2.4 p24, Aurora ISA guide)
[^svp64_intrin_cnt]: If treated as a 1-Dimensional ISA, and designed badly, the 24-bit Prefix expands 200+ scalar instructions to well over a million intrinsics (N~=10^4 **times** M~=10^2).
- If treated as a 2-Dimensional ISA and designed well, there are far less. N prefix intrinsics **plus** M scalar instruction intrinsics, where N is likely to be of the order of 10^2 and M of the order of 10^2.
+ If treated as a 2-Dimensional ISA and designed well, there are far less. N prefix intrinsics **plus** M scalar instruction intrinsics, where N is likely to be of the order of 10^2 and M of the order of 10^2.
[^vsx_intrin]: [Altivec gcc intrinsics](https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-AltiVec_002fVSX-Built-in-Functions.html), contains links to additional VSX intrinsics for ISA 2.05/6/7, 3.0 and 3.1
[^neon_intrin]: NEON 32-bit 2754 intrinsics, NEON 64-bit 4334 intrinsics.
[^sve2_intrin]: SVE: 4140 intrinsics, SVE2 1900 intrinsics
[^rvv_intrin]: [RVV intrinsics listing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riscv-non-isa/rvv-intrinsic-doc/master/intrinsic_funcs.md) page is 25,000 lines long.
[^aurora_intrin]: Unknown. estimated to be of the order of length of RVV due to also being a Cray-style Scalable ISA, NEC maintains an [LLVM hard fork](https://github.com/sx-aurora-dev)
[^sve2_mat]: [Scalable Matrix Optional Extension](https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/scalable-matrix-extension-armv9-a-architecture)
- the key is an outer-product instruction [SMOPA](https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2022-06/SME-Instructions/SMOPA--Signed-integer-sum-of-outer-products-and-accumulate-?lang=en) which is very hard to tell at a glance if it is power-2 or non-power-2
+ the key is an outer-product instruction [SMOPA](https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2022-06/SME-Instructions/SMOPA--Signed-integer-sum-of-outer-products-and-accumulate-?lang=en) which is very hard to tell at a glance if it is power-2 or non-power-2
[^x86_amx]: [Advanced matrix Extensions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Matrix_Extensions) supports BF16 and INT8 only. Separate regfile, power-of-two "tiles". Not general-purpose at all.
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