From d92a79186a8d4828767253f13af04c20688a4b9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:16:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/predication.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/predication.mdwn b/openpower/sv/predication.mdwn index 002967d3b..572f37e24 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/predication.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/predication.mdwn @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ As well-known weaknesses that compromise performance, very little use of OE=1 is (see [[masked_vector_chaining]]) -One of the design principles of SV is that the use of VL should be as closrly equivalent to a direct substitution of the scalar operations of the hardware for-loop as possible, as if those looped operations were actually in the instruction stream rather than being issued from the Vector loop. +One of the design principles of SV is that the use of VL should be as closrly equivalent to a direct substitution of the scalar operations of the hardware for-loop as possible, as if those looped operations were actually in the instruction stream (as scalar operations) rather than being issued from the Vector loop. The implications here are that *register dependency hazards still have to be respected inter-element*. -- 2.30.2