[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 632] Potentially share Vector Math libraries with Rust's project portable SIMD (`std::simd`)

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632

--- Comment #6 from Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #5)
> ah.  just a reminder, jacob: we cannot deviate from the original
> (agreed) Memorandum of Understanding.  we simply cannot arbitrarily
> "add new tasks".
> 
> however, if during the course of implementing one such pre-agreed task,
> a library happens to be needed which does not exist, then yes,
> that's perfectly fine.

Yup! We'd need this library because a SimpleV-capable math library doesn't
exist, we need to build one. We can share the implementation costs with Rust's
std::simd (which also wants a vector math library without libc, libm, or OS
dependencies for use in Rust's `core` library). In particular, this means the
math library will have generic vector-length-independent implementations
written in Rust.

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