top | item 44500844

(no title)

vectorcamp | 7 months ago

You make some good points. I represent Vectorcamp (creators of simd.info). It's still in Beta status, because we know there are some limitations currently, but we are already using it in production for our own projects. Now to comment on your points:

1. Empty string -> zero results, obviously a bug, we'll add some default value. 2. The sparse results are because of VSX, VSX provides multiple prototypes per intrinsic, which we thought would increase the size of the results a bit too much. Including the prototypes in the results is not a problem, but we don't want to have too much information on the other hand, that would make it too hard for the developer to find the relevant intrinsic. We'll take another look at this.

The description actually is rather bare, we intend to include a lot more information, like diagrams, pseudo code for the operation etc.

Examples are meant to be run as self-contained compile units, in the Compiler Explorer or locally, to demonstrate the intrinsic hence the extra setup. This will not change.

We also think that nothing will replace the official ISA references, we also include links to those anyway.

3. Regarding the contrast, we're already working on a light/dark theme.

Thank you for your comments.

discuss

order

No comments yet.