llvm dev - Jun 2021 - Adding libcall support for Rust's new vector math library

Sounds like a good plan to me, but perhaps others know more/better.
Clang option -fveclib=​ can be used to specify a vector library, so I think the
infrastructure is there and you'll just need to plumb in support for yours.

Cheers.
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Subject: [llvm-dev] Adding libcall support for Rust's new vector math
library

We're writing a vector math library for use with Rust's Project Portable
SIMD, where we would like to have fast architecture-independent implementations
of functions like vectorized cos that are available from Rust's `core`
library, where the requirement is that it can't depend on system libraries
such as libc or libm. In order to have Rust code run as fast as possible, we
want to have the Rust compiler generate calls to LLVM intrinsics such as
llvm.cos.v4f32 allowing LLVM to optimize those intrinsics and generate native
instructions where available, otherwise generating calls to the Rust vector math
library functions that implement the appropriate functions.

Tracking issue for vector math library with more details:
https://github.com/rust-lang/stdsimd/issues/109

WIP vector math library:
https://salsa.debian.org/Kazan-team/vector-math/

What all is required to get LLVM to generate libcalls to our vector math
library? Does this sound like a good plan?

Also, there are some math functions that don't currently have generic LLVM
intrinsics, that several different architectures support, such as sinpi which is
supported by AMDGPU (multiply input by 0.5 then use the `sin` instruction),
OpenCL-flavored SPIR-V, Libre-SOC's SimpleV (not in LLVM yet), and probably
others too.

Jacob Lifshay
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2021, 02:48 Sjoerd Meijer <Sjoerd.Meijer at arm.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a good plan to me, but perhaps others know more/better.
>
Thanks!
>
> Clang option -fveclib=​ can be used to specify a vector library, so I
> think the infrastructure is there and you'll just need to plumb in
support
> for yours.
>
Yeah, I'm aware the infrastructure already exists, I'm just not sure how
I
should add the new code -- which classes should I subclass/modify?

Jacob
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