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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Map: introduce "AlignedPointer" flag?
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:19:20 -0400
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2009/10/21 Rohit Garg <rpg.314@xxxxxxxxx>:
> If I understand this correctly, this is about making fixed size
> objects vectorizable with Map's? If not, then it is on my wishlist.
Yes it is :)
Benoit
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> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is for Gael. Currently in Map, what's the precise meaning of
>> "ForceAligned" ? Is it:
>>
>> " If you use packet access, then use aligned packet access " ?
>>
>> If yes, is it correct to say that at the moment we don't offer any way
>> to tell that the pointer passed to Map is aligned, and that therefore
>> we may enable packet access also e.g. for good fixed sizes? I remember
>> you saying something like "we need a FirstAligned flag", were you
>> talking about that? What do you think about calling that
>> AlignedPointer and renaming ForceAligned to ForceAlignedAccess ?
>> Finally, can you remind me what the use case for ForceAligned is, if
>> we have AlignedPointer?
>>
>> If you tell me all that I can try to get that done ;)
>>
>> Benoit
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> Rohit Garg
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> http://rpg-314.blogspot.com/
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> Senior Undergraduate
> Department of Physics
> Indian Institute of Technology
> Bombay
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