Finch/tests/run/vectors.fch
Claude 68a9493572
Vector types (SIMD): f32x8, i8x32, f64x4 and the rest; --cpu native
- fNxM / iNxM / uNxM up to 512 bits, as LLVM vectors (<8 x float>): LLVM picks SSE, AVX2,
  AVX-512 or NEON for them
- f32x8(x) in every lane, f32x8(a, ..., h), f32x8(list, i) loads, f32x8(i32x8 v) converts
- + - * / and the bit operators lane by lane, with a plain number on either side counting for every lane;
  v[i], v[i] = x, v.len, == / != (every lane), print and str
- methods: sum min max dot abs sqrt floor ceil round fma store; min/max/abs/clamp lane by lane
- wide vectors (and structs holding them) are loaded and stored with align 16, what malloc and the stack give
- --cpu <name> (and cpu = "..." in finch.toml): native, x86-64-v3, apple-m1, ...
- debug info shows vectors; the language server completes their methods; Kate and VS Code highlight them
- f32 x = -1.5 works: a minus in front of a float written in the code keeps it such a number

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Psc42moPLwP43Cmb9oZqSR
2026-11-01 13:50:35 +00:00

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// Vectors: N numbers side by side, worked on all at once (SIMD)
struct Particle {
f32x8 pos
int id = 7
}
fn scale(f32x8 v, f32 k) -> f32x8 {
return v * k
}
// a dot product of two lists, 8 at a time, with the rest one by one
fn dot([]f32 a, []f32 b) -> f32 {
acc := f32x8(0.0)
i := 0
while i + 8 <= a.len {
acc = f32x8(a, i).fma(f32x8(b, i), acc)
i += 8
}
total := acc.sum()
while i < a.len {
total += a[i] * b[i]
i += 1
}
return total
}
fn main() {
a := f32x4(1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0)
b := f32x4(0.5)
print(a + b, a * 2.0, 10.0 - a, -a)
print(a.sum(), a.min(), a.max(), a.dot(a), a.len)
print((a * a).sqrt(), f32x4(1.5, -1.5, 2.5, -0.2).round(), f32x4(1.7).floor(), f32x4(1.2).ceil())
print(abs(f32x4(-1.0, 2.0, -3.0, 4.0)), min(a, 2.5), max(a, f32x4(2.0)), clamp(a, 1.5, 3.5))
// lanes
a[0] = 9.0
print(a[0], a[3], a)
print(a == f32x4(9.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0), a != a)
// whole numbers, bits, conversions
n := i32x8(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
print(n * 3 - 1, n << 2, n & 1, ~n, n.sum(), n.max())
print(f32x8(n) / 2.0, i32x8(f32x8(2.9)), i16x8(n), u8x16(200).sum())
print(abs(i32x4(-3, 3, -7, 0)), min(u8x16(5), u8x16(9)).max())
// from lists and back
[]f32 data
for i in 0..20 {
data.push(f32(i))
}
v := f32x8(data, 4)
print(v)
(v * 10.0).store(data, 12)
print(data)
print(dot(data, data))
// in structs, arrays, functions, and str()
p := Particle(pos: f32x8(1.0))
p.pos = scale(p.pos, 3.0)
p.pos[7] = 0.5
print(p)
[]f64x4 list
list.push(f64x4(1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0))
list.push(list[0] * list[0])
print(list, str(list[1]).len)
i64x2 big = i64x2(1 << 40, -5)
print(big + big)
}