From 749d66129d2eaad243ea9caa5f6151ca9efb923d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:25:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn b/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn index 0ed50021f..715cb1ab4 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ VSX and NEON are PackedSIMD, and AVX-512 and ARM SVE2 are Predicated SIMD ISAs. **None of them provide Scalability to the Programmer**. SVE2 is **Silicon** Scalable, not **Programmer** Scalable: the distinction is profoundly -important (already causing problems). +important (already +[causing problems](https://gist.github.com/zingaburga/805669eb891c820bd220418ee3f0d6bd#file-sve2-md) ). For Predicated SIMD, Programmers must emulate Cray-style scaling through explicit predicate masking, which increases instruction count in hot-loops. -- 2.30.2