Re: Rep:[f-cpu] A simple SIMD extension for C(++)

[Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 07:31:45AM +0000, Nicolas Boulay wrote:
> In the STL C++ library there is a type called valarray it's vector of
> "something" if you apply an operator with it it will be done value by
> value as SIMD does !
> 
> So such thing could be done for valarray<int>, valarray<short>,...

The purpose of the `valarray' template is to make programming easier,
while __map__ shall enable the compiler to optimize for SIMD processors,
by explicitly marking SIMD-style parallelism. But of course you can use
the latter to implement the former :)

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 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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