Three articles on D

data pulverizer data.pulverizer at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 05:45:36 UTC 2020


On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 05:29:34 UTC, data pulverizer wrote:
> Interesting. I didn't know that fast math vectorized 
> calculations - automatically using SIMD. That feature isn't 
> mentioned on the LLVM fast math documentation 
> https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#fast-math-flags. Julia's 
> approach to SIMD and fast math seems effective - the practice 
> of being able to label individual statements to direct the 
> compiler to optimize those specific statements.

p.s. @simd in Julia was written by Intel's Arch Robinson the 
architect of Intel's Threading Building Blocks. That kind of 
support is very helpful indeed 
https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/vectorization-in-julia.html.


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