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Issue 250433002: PNaCl documentation: add SIMD vectors. (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
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3 ############## 3 ##############
4 NaCl and PNaCl 4 NaCl and PNaCl
5 ############## 5 ##############
6 6
7 This document describes the differences between **Native Client** and 7 This document describes the differences between **Native Client** and
8 **Portable Native Client**, and provides recommendations for when to use each. 8 **Portable Native Client**, and provides recommendations for when to use each.
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102 .. _when-to-use-nacl: 102 .. _when-to-use-nacl:
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104 When to use NaCl 104 When to use NaCl
105 ================ 105 ================
106 106
107 The limitations below apply to the current release of PNaCl. If any of 107 The limitations below apply to the current release of PNaCl. If any of
108 these limitations are critical for your application, you should use 108 these limitations are critical for your application, you should use
109 non-portable NaCl: 109 non-portable NaCl:
110 110
111 * By its nature, PNaCl does not support architecture-specific instructions in 111 * By its nature, PNaCl does not support architecture-specific
112 an application (i.e., inline assembly). Future editions of PNaCl will 112 instructions in an application (i.e., inline assembly), but tries to
113 attempt to mitigate this problem by introducing portable intrinsics for vector 113 offer high-performance equivalents.
Derek Schuff 2014/04/24 16:06:20 "high-performance portable equivalents"?
JF 2014/04/24 16:16:30 Done.
114 operations.
115 * Currently PNaCl only supports static linking with the ``newlib`` 114 * Currently PNaCl only supports static linking with the ``newlib``
116 C standard library (the Native Client SDK provides a PNaCl port of 115 C standard library (the Native Client SDK provides a PNaCl port of
117 ``newlib``). Dynamic linking and ``glibc`` are not yet supported. 116 ``newlib``). Dynamic linking and ``glibc`` are not yet supported.
118 Work is under way to enable dynamic linking in future versions of PNaCl. 117 Work is under way to enable dynamic linking in future versions of PNaCl.
119 * In the initial release, PNaCl does not support vector types and SIMD.
120 * In the initial release, PNaCl does not support some GNU extensions 118 * In the initial release, PNaCl does not support some GNU extensions
121 like taking the address of a label for computed ``goto``, or nested 119 like taking the address of a label for computed ``goto``, or nested
122 functions. 120 functions.
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