"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

> >What kind of "support"? Making effective use of superword-level
> >parallelism in compilers is far from being a solved problem...
> 
> I assume what you mean having the compiler automatically figure out 
> when it can make use of altivec for ordinary programs. 

Yes, that's what I had in mind. See for example
http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/slp/ for some papers on the
subject. There's some good work, but it's mostly only applicable to
Fortran code.

> I'd be happy with it just having assembly support.

Sure, that's useful too.

        - Nathan