On 5/14/19 9:03 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 14:53 +0200, Andrew Jones wrote: >> We already have sve-max-vq, so I'm not sure we want to rename it. > > Oh, I didn't realize that was the case. And of course it already > takes a number of quadwords as argument, I suppose? That's pretty > unfortunate :( > > Perhaps we could consider deprecating it in favor of a user-friendly > variant that's actually suitable for regular humans, like the one I > suggest above?
Why is =4 less user-friendly than =512? I don't actually see "total bits in vector" as more user-friendly than "number of quadwords" when it comes to non-powers-of-2 like =7 vs =896 or =13 vs =1664. r~