SIMD on Windows

Benjamin Thaut code at benjamin-thaut.de
Sat Jun 22 08:41:45 PDT 2013


Am 22.06.2013 15:53, schrieb jerro:
>> In its current state you don't want to be using SIMD with dmd because
>> the generated assembly will be significantly slower then if you just
>> use the default FPU math.
>
> That may be true for some kinds of code, but it isn't true int general.
> For example, see the comparison of pfft's performance when built with 64
> bit DMD using SIMD and without SIMD:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/kYYI9R9.png
>
> This benchmark was run on a core i5 2500K on 64 bit Debian Wheezy.

Ok I saw that you did write quite a few cirtical functions in inline 
assembly. Not really a good argument for dmds codegen with simd intrinsics.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut


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