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Grand Unified Theory of SIMD

Posted by Hemos on from the the-string-theory-of-SIMD dept.

Glen Low writes " All of a sudden, there's going to be an Altivec unit in every pot: the Mac Mini, the Cell processor, the Xbox2. Yet programming for the PowerPC Altivec and Intel MMX/SSE SIMD (single instruction multiple data) units remains the black art of assembly language magicians. The macstl project tries to unify the architectures in a simple C++ template library. It just reached its 0.2 milestone and claims a 3.6x to 16.2x speed-up over hand-coded scalar loops. And of course it's all OSI-approved RPL goodness. "

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  1. Reads the article again... by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *nods* Yes.

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