Support for experimental SIMD types?
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Could the types__m128bh
, __m256bh
, __m512
, __m512bh
, __m512d
, __m512i
be added to bytemuck under an experimental feature flag (or multiple, one for AVX-512 and one for the bh
types)?
I suppose. I'm not familiar with those but if they're basically normalish simd types that sounds fine.
I'd also request the portable_simd
types when compiling under nightly: impl Pod for std::simd::Simd<T, LANES> where T: Pod
. Something for std::simd::Mask
too, but the requirements there are more subtle, and I'm not yet confident of what they should be.
I can agree with Simd where T: Pod, but Mask is kinda dodgy, yeah.
Let's add each of these under a bytemuck cargo flag named after the rustc feature that lets you use them. So, portable_simd
, and then whatever the avx-512 stuff is called.
Someone who isn't me do the PR, then I'll approve the PR and do a patch release of the provisional support.