SIMD support...

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Fri Jan 6 14:47:25 PST 2012


On 6 January 2012 22:37, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 January 2012 23:59, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 January 2012 19:53, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ...I'm using DMD on windows... x32. So this isn't ideal ;)
>> > Although with this change, Iain should be able to expose the vector
>> > types in
>> > GDC, and I can work from there, and hopefully even build an ARM/PPC
>> > toolchain to experiment with the library in a cross platform
>> > environment.
>> >
>>
>> And will also allow me to tap into many vector intrinsics that gcc
>> offers too via the gcc.builtins; module. :)
>
>
> Huzzah! ... Like what?

For backend intrinsics, they are all functions that map to asm
instructions of the same name, ie: __builtin_ia32_addps.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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