From 0367433a2a41a3718a06862ef0c2ca6cf5c9003a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 16:56:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index 4afb0c392..85116aced 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -241,13 +241,13 @@ of magnitude increase in the number of hand-written lines of assembler compared to a well-designed Cray-style Vector ISA with a `setvl` instruction. -
-*Packed SIMD looped algorithms actually have to +*
+Packed SIMD looped algorithms actually have to contain multiple implementations processing fragments of data at different SIMD widths: Cray-style Vectors have just the one, covering not just current architectural implementations but future ones with -wider back-end ALUs as well.* -
+wider back-end ALUs as well. +
* Assuming then that variable-length Vectors are obviously desirable, it becomes a matter of how, not if. Both Cray and NEC SX Aurora -- 2.30.2