bytecodealliance
[RFC] Add SIMD128 support in the interpreters
Feature
Add support for the WASM SIMD opcodes in the interpreters. For my use case I imagine I would use only ARM NEON intrinsics that can run on ARMv7 processors. I imagine I can create some stub functions and then implement them for arm and keep x86 disabled for now.
Benefit
Ability to run code that uses the SIMD 128 opcodes in the interpreters where AOT is not possible.
Implementation
I've implemented a few of the SIMD opcodes already as a PoC but I'm expecting to work through the list and add them all.
Alternatives
Thanks @jammar1 . Do you think it'd be good to setup a dev branch so you can post incremental Pull requests or you'd rather just make one big request with all the opcodes implemented? cc: @wenyongh
@loganek, @jammar1 Maybe using a dev branch is better so that we can do more test before merging the feature to main branch? I created a new branch dev/simd_for_interp: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/tree/dev/simd_for_interp.
Agree with using a dev branch. I imagine I will work through each of the SIMD test suites and raise a PR for each opcode in the block's here: core/iwasm/interpreter/wasm_opcode.h.