Vectorizing for Fun and Performance(ibm.com)

48 pointsby rinostrohhá 9 meses4 comments

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/vectorizing-fun-and-performance

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In C++, this can be achieved portably using the Highway library: https://github.com/google/highway

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on this, and I am writing this in my personal capacity.)

jiehonghá 8 meses

Makes me wonder why IBM never tried to make a GPU at some point.

bear8642há 8 meses

They sort of did with the Cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)

jiehonghá 8 meses

Ah, you're right!

I didn't realize they actually made a version of the Cell for blade servers at the time

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