By: anonymou5 (no.delete@this.spam.com), November 13, 2012 5:44 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
> I seem to recall that a scatter instruction was included in LRBni (and
> this article that I found from Michael Abrash makes mention of one); is
> there any particular reason why it could not be included in AVX2 or
> could not foreseeably be added in future iterations?
KNF/L1OM has VSCATTERD.
KNC/K1OM has VSCATTER{PS,PD} and VPSCATTERD{D,Q}.
AVX2 doesn't have it.
AVX3 might.
> this article that I found from Michael Abrash makes mention of one); is
> there any particular reason why it could not be included in AVX2 or
> could not foreseeably be added in future iterations?
KNF/L1OM has VSCATTERD.
KNC/K1OM has VSCATTER{PS,PD} and VPSCATTERD{D,Q}.
AVX2 doesn't have it.
AVX3 might.



