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diff --git a/docs/Lexicon.rst b/docs/Lexicon.rst index 35687e258182..ebc3fb772e81 100644 --- a/docs/Lexicon.rst +++ b/docs/Lexicon.rst @@ -249,6 +249,14 @@ S Superword-Level Parallelism, same as :ref:`Basic-Block Vectorization <lexicon-bb-vectorization>`. +**Splat** + Splat refers to a vector of identical scalar elements. + + The term is based on the PowerPC Altivec instructions that provided + this functionality in hardware. For example, "vsplth" and the corresponding + software intrinsic "vec_splat()". Examples of other hardware names for this + action include "duplicate" (ARM) and "broadcast" (x86). + **SRoA** Scalar Replacement of Aggregates |