# Comments

## enabling/disabling individual 8 and 16-bit operations in SIMD blocks

* At the end of a loop, how are the three end operations of 4-wide 8-bit operations to be disabled (to avoid "SIMD considered harmful"?)
* Likewise at the beginning of a loop, how are (up to) the first three operations to be disabled?
* Likewise the last (and first) of 2-wide 16-bit operations?
* What about predication within a 4-wide 8-bit group?
* Likewise what about predication within a 2-wide 16-bit group?

## Providing "cross-over" between elements in a group

what do you think of the "CSR cross[32][6]" idea?  sorry below may 
not be exactly clear, it's basically a way to generalise all 
cross-operations, even the SUNPKD810 rt, ra and ZUNPKD810 rt, ra would 
reduce down to one instruction as opposed to 8 right now. 

    def butterfly_remap(remap_me): 
        # hmmm a little hazy on the details here.... 
        # help, help! logic-dyslexia kicking in! 
        # erm do some crossover using the 6 bits from 
        # the CSR cross map.  first 2 bits swap 
        # elements in index positions 0,1 and 2,3 
        # second 2 bits swap elements in positions 0,2 and 1,3 
        # then swap 0,1 and 2,3 a second time. 
        # gives full set of all permutations. 
        return something, something 

    def crossover(elidx, destreg): 
        base = elidx & ~0x7 
        return butterfly_remap(CSR_cross[destreg][elidx & 0x7]) 

    def op(v1, v2, v3): 
       for l in vlen: 
          remap_src1, remap_src2 = crossover(i, v1) 
          # remap_srcN references byte offsets? erm.... :) 
          GPR[v1] = scalar_op(GPR[v2][remap_src1],
                              GPR[v3][remap_src2])

Otherwise, VSHUFFLE and so on (and possibly xBitManip) would
need to be used. xBitManip would not be a bad idea, except
consideration of VLIW-like DSP (TI C67*) architectures needs
to be given, which do not do register-renaming and have fixed
pipeline phases with no stalling on register-dependencies.