llvm dev - Dec 2010 - [LLVMdev] example of language with vector as first class type

Hi All

Does anyone know any example compiler where it has vector/matrix as first
class type like matlab using llvm? If not, does anyone have idea how that
should be done on llvm?

Thanks

Leon
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On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Leon Sit wrote:
> Does anyone know any example compiler where it has vector/matrix as first
class type like matlab using llvm? If not, does anyone have idea how that should
be done on llvm?
Any GCC-compatible frontend — i.e. llvm-gcc, clang, or dragonegg — has vectors
as a first-class type.  I wouldn't exactly laud any of GCC's various
vector extensions as a sterling example of good language design, but if
you're just looking for demonstrations of how to generate vector IR,
that's where I'd start.

John.

When you say vector in GCC, do you mean vector in the mathematical sense or
the low level array sense?

Leon



On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com>
wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Leon Sit wrote:
> > Does anyone know any example compiler where it has vector/matrix as
first
> class type like matlab using llvm? If not, does anyone have idea how that
> should be done on llvm?
>
> Any GCC-compatible frontend — i.e. llvm-gcc, clang, or dragonegg — has
> vectors as a first-class type.  I wouldn't exactly laud any of
GCC's various
> vector extensions as a sterling example of good language design, but if
> you're just looking for demonstrations of how to generate vector IR,
that's
> where I'd start.
>
> John.
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Hi Leon,
> Does anyone know any example compiler where it has vector/matrix as first
class
> type like matlab using llvm? If not, does anyone have idea how that should
be
> done on llvm?
llvm-gcc and dragonegg support Ada which has first class vector and matrix
types.  They can have variable size.

Ciao, Duncan.

Hi,

On Wednesday 15 December 2010, Leon Sit wrote:
> Does anyone know any example compiler where it has vector/matrix as first
> class type like matlab using llvm? If not, does anyone have idea how that
> should be done on llvm?
There is a llvm backend in freemat (see http://freemat-
blog.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-jit-how-to-jit.html) and I think there was one 
developed for octave (I will let you google for that :) ).

-- 
Cyrille Berger Skott