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Document number: N3571

Date: 2013-03-15

A Proposal To Add Single Instruction Multiple Data Computation to the Standard Library

by Pierre Esterie, Mathias Gaunard, Joel Falcou

Excerpt:

For maximum accessibility, programmers should be able to vectorize their code without needing a high level of expertise for every single SIMD extension. This proposal introduces a high-level abstraction to the user that gives access to SIMD computation in an instinctive way. It comes as a C++ template library, headers only that relies on a possibly full library implementation. With a high level template type for abstracting a SIMD register, the user can easily introduce SIMD in his application by instantiating this type and applying high level functions on it.