[DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

[tle]

I've just lodged a ticket at https://github.com/ispc/ispc/issues/3517 and wondering if anyone in the community has done a similar Implicit SPMD Program Compiler for PPC64 yet. Many thanks

[MPC7500]

Maybe cleaner and better solution from VectorCamp:
https://simd.ai/

But it's always good to have options.

[tle]

Maybe cleaner and better solution from VectorCamp:
https://simd.ai/

But it's always good to have options.

Well I have sent the people there an email expression my interests in trying out the beta. Let's hope they get back to me

[MPC7500]

Message from Konstantinos (via IRC #talos-workstation):

normally I don't do marketing, but I think this might interest people interested in VSX programming, we have just released a VSCode extension that integrates SIMD.info, SIMD.ai (optional) into a VSCode extension, check code.simd.ai
Codium free alternative pending approval of my account to the eclipse foundation

[MPC7500]

... More SIMD engines are being integrated, and as a hint IBM Z is next! The plan is to have *ALL* SIMD intrinsics for every platform supported.

Linkedin

Hopefully that includes the PPC970 and PA6T-1682M.

[tle]

Okay I added a basic support PPC64LE

It's pretty much straight forward changes https://github.com/ispc/ispc/pull/3735

at this stage it has no PPC-specific ISPCTarget enum values, no ISA enum entry, no .ll builtin files. I hope this would create the foundation for developers to further extend it.

[ClassicHasClass]

Looks like a great start.