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Created Feb 01, 2021 by Mark Abraham@mark.j.abrahamOwner6 of 6 tasks completed6/6 tasks

Remove deprecated SIMD support

The following platforms and SIMD layers were deprecated in !938 (merged) (which was in release 2021) after discussion at #3818 (closed) and should be removed:

  • ARM Neon (ie. impl_arm_neon, not impl_arm_neon_asimd)
  • Power 7 (ie. impl_ibm_vmx)
  • x86 MIC (ie. KNC support in impl_86_mic; note this does not affect support on KNL)
  • Sparc64 HPC ACE (ie. impl_sparc64_hpc_ace; the architecture of the former K computer)
  • Decide future of tree reduction used for MIC
  • Remove tree reduction used for MIC

Related cmake detection and code paths should also go away. They're not tested in CI, so nothing changes there.

There's a fancy tree reduction for MIC that could go away, which might be desirable because it is implemented using stuff from thread-MPI, whereas these days one would implement it with something like the std::atomc_flag<ptrdiff_t> or (C++20) std::latch.

Edited Feb 09, 2021 by Mark Abraham
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