Add ARMv6 SIMD support

Registered by Andrew Stubbs

Add GCC support for the short-vector SIMD instructions that work on core registers.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Loïc Minier
Priority:
Not
Drafter:
Andrew Stubbs
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for 4.6
Implementation:
Informational Informational
Milestone target:
milestone icon backlog
Started by
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Completed by
Matthew Gretton-Dann

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Effort: 1-3M

From the 2011-01 summit, this is unlikely to give much benefit.
Tags: community

[2013-05-29 matthew-gretton-dann] Moved to Jira: http://cards.linaro.org/browse/TCWG-144

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Work Items

Work items:
Find benchmarks that may show improvements: TODO
Investigate: TODO
Find existing 'best in class' code: TODO
Add to vectoriser: TODO
Add to backend: TODO

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