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yes, right, if length is a multiple of 15, there is an issue.

And there is no primitive for masking on AVX2, those are only available on AVX-256.

if we want to minimize the iterations of the post loop, it should be

  var upperBound = length % 15 == 0? length - 15: length - length % 15;

but as you said, i'm not sure the VM will eliminate the bound checks in that case so your solution seems to be the best

  var upperBound = length - 15

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> And there is no primitive for masking on AVX2, those are only available on AVX-256.

Sure there is a masking MOV in the original AVX (thus including AVX2), VMASKMOV. Works for both masked loads and stores.

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/vmaskmov

Notably: "Faults occur only due to mask-bit required memory accesses that caused the faults. Faults will not occur due to referencing any memory location if the corresponding mask bit for that memory location is 0. For example, no faults will be detected if the mask bits are all zero."

A nitpick: there's no such thing as AVX-256, you probably meant AVX-512.

Thanks, i've overlooked that

    var mask = VectorMask.fromLong(SPECIES, 0b0111_1111);

    var i = 0;
    var upperBound = length - length % 15;
    for(; i < upperBound; i += 15) {
      v1.intoArray(result, i);
      v2.intoArray(result, i + 8, mask);
      ...

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