cpufeatures: Detecting support for `neon`?
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Description
It would be useful to be able to detect support for the neon instruction set on ARM, allowing to use vectorised instructions. As far as I can tell from the documentation, this is not yet supported.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the cpufeatures crate and its documentation for how existing ARM instruction-set support is detected. Determine the appropriate representation of NEON support and verify the behavior on ARM targets; done means callers can reliably detect NEON support as they can for the crate’s existing features.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100