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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Vectorising conditional code.
Message-ID: <7584@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 16 Jul 88 15:12:20 GMT
References: <893@garth.UUCP> <28200176@urbsdc> <963@garth.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <963@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
 > >                                  How good are available
 > >compilers at vectorizing complex arithmetic? Do people short
 > >shrift complex because most "important" programs have already
 > >been translated to use reals? Is this a self-fulfilling prophecy?
 > 
 > On the 205, complex is vectorised but into library calls. Vector complex
 > operators require multiple scratch vectors and the code generator is
 > only set up to define one scratch vector per operator. (Modular code?
 > We don't need no steenking modular code.)

And we might want some better library routines.  Complex on the 205 is
much slower than it needs to be.
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