Re: [boost] [GSOC]Asking for advice

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSOC]Asking for advice
From: Faiçal (tfeysal_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-26 15:55:35

Le 26/03/2011 07:57, Joel Falcou a écrit :
> On 25/03/11 21:51, Faiçal wrote:
>> I want to participate (for the first time) in GSoC, particularly 
>> boost's projects. I first choosed to apply for the "Checks & Hashes" 
>> project but I discussed briefly on #boost irc and people here 
>> convinced me to take a look on the SIMD Library project. This project 
>> seems very challenging, I'll try it despite my poor experience. I 
>> start reading about SIMD, I'm currently reading it's wikipedia 
>> article and some articles found by google and I download the AltiVec 
>> programming interface manual. It would be useful for me if some of 
>> you guys give me links for good references articles or documentation 
>> about this technology.
>> This post is essentially for introducing myself to your community and 
>> asking advice in preparing  my application for the project.
>> Thanks.
>
> You can have a look at the AltiVec cross reference sheet here :
>
> http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/instruction_crossref.html
>
> and the assorted guides on the old apple velocity engine:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/code_optimization.html
> http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/throughput_vs_latency.html
>
> note that most of these techniques are cross-extension (especially 
> abusing the silent casting of vectors and the mask-select instead of 
> if-then-else.)
> You can get a short overview of these in our boost'con talk from last 
> year. It may also be nice if you read up on proto as we use it quite 
> intensively.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Unsubscribe & other changes: 
> http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
>
>
Thanks for your reply, I'll carefully read them.