From e726123a2152c5aa3ed51b2e3accfa6cbf358acd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 11:50:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn b/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn index 7ff6d1f51..304f63a6c 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/executive_summary.mdwn @@ -18,8 +18,11 @@ the provision of a `setvl` instruction and why they are each called presents the programmer with explicit control over Vector length. ARM NEON, AVX-512 and ARM SVE2 are all Predicated SIMD ISAs and -**do not provide Scalability**. Programmers must emulate scaling -through explicit predicate masks which increases instruction count in +**do not provide Scalability to the Programmer** (SVE2 is **Silicon** +Scalable, not **Programmer** Scalable: the distinction is profoundly +critical). +For Predicated SIMD, Programmers must emulate scaling +through explicit predicate masking, which increases instruction count in hot-loops. We invented Simple-V to be simple because we don't like complicated. -- 2.30.2