cranelift: Remove the enable_simd
shared setting
#6631
Merged
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This commit removes a setting for Cranelift which I've found a bit confusing historically and I think is no longer necessary. The setting is currently documented as enabling SIMD instructions, but that only sort of works for the x64 backend and none of the other backends look at it. Historically this was used to flag to Cranelift that a higher x64 baseline feature set is required for codegen but as of #6625 that's no longer necessary.
Otherwise it seems more Cranelift-like nowadays to say that vector instructions generate SIMD instructions where non-vector instructions probably don't, but may still depending on activated CPU features. In that sense I'm not sure if a dedicated
enable_simd
setting is still motivated, so this PR removes it.This renames some features in the x86 backend such as
use_avx_simd
touse_avx
since the_simd
part is no longer part of the computation now thatenable_simd
is gone.