Re: [Boost-users] NT² 3.0 and Boost.SIMD - Stable release

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] NT² 3.0 and Boost.SIMD - Stable release
From: Matthieu Brucher (matthieu.brucher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-15 07:49:56

Nice job!
Hope you will be able to make the submission soon ;)

Matthieu

2014-02-15 12:34 GMT+01:00 Joel Falcou <joel.falcou_at_[hidden]>:
> The first stable release of the 3.x series of MetaScale's open-source
> software is available: NT² 3.0. It also includes its spin-off project,
> Boost.SIMD (not yet a Boost library). Many Issues have been closed since
> last beta. The main focus of this release cycle was to fix performances
> issues and to stabilize some parts of the API.
>
> Next step will be to separate NT2 and Boost.SIMD into separate repositories,
> thus making one more step toward Boost.SIMD submission into review.
>
> [ http://www.metascale.org/nt%C2%B2-3-0-and-boost-simd ]
>
> *Changes & Bug Fixes:*
>
>  - Major performance improvements in both libraries
>  - Added experimental support for the HPX runtime for parallelization on
> shared memory systems
>  - Optimizations of many elemental functions, in particuler log/ex,
> frexp/ldexp and cbrt
>  - More advanced shuffle pattern recognition for SIMD
>  - Fixed issues with Visual Studio 2013
>  - More functions are force-inlined to ensure good performance
>  - New functions for conversion between types and mixing of vectors of
> different sizes
>  - Demo applications usable as benchmarks
>  - Better handling of errors when an unsupported function is called
>  - New API for custom memory allocators
>
> Full changelog is available at
> https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2/releases/tag/3.0.0.
>
> *How to get it ?*
>
>  - Source and binary packages can be downloaded here:
> http://nt2.metascale.org/downloads
>
>  - The release is also available on Github :
> https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2/releases
>
>  - The main master branch is still under development :
> https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2
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