On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:50:50PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:03:14PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote: > >> > This is great. What we've been thinking about is building a library > >> > of SIMD accelerated primitives, along the lines of Intel's Integrated > >> > Performance Primitives. The crucial differences would be: free > >> > software (GPLv3); support for SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Altivec and Cell SPE > >> > instruction sets. > >> > >> Do you mind adding NEON to this list? NEON is a SIMD unit on ARM > >> Cortex-A8 processors. Information on NEON instructions is at > >> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0204h/Bcfjicfj.html. > >> Sorry it si the superseded link, I'm too lazy to find the current one > >> :) > > > > > > NEON's fine by me, as long as you're doing the work :-) > > I just want to make sure the work has somewhere to go.
Yep, me too. > >> liboil is used by a number of desktop programs, spending time on this > >> would be a win for me :) > > > > The issues I see with it is that there's currently no support for > > complex-<anything> in the framework, and that the intel function naming > > convention doesn't map well (at all?) into the liboil framework. > > Well, who said it was an Intel dominated world? Nobody. However, they have provided over 1000 pages of detailed documentation on their API. Since a big part of any effort is figuring out what the API should be, I'd prefer to use theirs (and their documentation) than to reinvent the wheel. Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
