Re: [boost] GSoC SIMD project

Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC SIMD project
From: Tim Blechmann (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-28 14:51:34

>>> Joel Falcou and I have a SIMD library in the works that we plan to
>>> submit to Boost by May; we've also submitted a boostcon talk on the subject.
>> out of curiosity: do you support any `advanced' SIMD operations like libm
>> functions for SIMD vectors and the like? i have a small generic SIMD library
>> [1], which implements a subset of libm in a generic way. it might be an
>> interesting gsoc project to add some kind of SIMD math support, if it is not
>> in there, yet ... the functionality is not trivial to implement, but gives
>> some considerable speedup ...
> 
> we have libm and more, just extracting list of function from the
> trigonometric toolbox give us this:

very cool! i will probably target boost.simd as backend then :D

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