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Re:Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program by adgjlsfhk1 on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:05PM (#34551850)
there still is the fundamental problem that most people who do compiler work mostly don't work on servers so Intel's strategy has kept avx 512 from having good support
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Re:Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program by imtringued on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:09AM (#34558120)
I think the biggest issue is that auto vectorization would need a programming language that is designed around it.

Vectorization is a niche but GPU programming isn't (shader programming is very popular).

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Re:Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program by CoastalCoder on Monday January 30, 2023 @01:24AM (#34576459)
> I think the biggest issue is that auto vectorization would need a programming language that is designed around it.

I don't think that's correct.

The compilers I work with do a pretty decent job of auto-vectorizing the inner-most loops of an algorithm, especially if they know the loop bounds at compile-time.

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