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-Mr Compiler, may I help you with the loop vectorization? -Not a disservice, please.

By Victoria Zhislina (Intel) (2 posts) on October 12, 2011 at 1:42 am
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Any parent knows the simple rule: "Never help a child with a task he can succeed at himself. Otherwise you don't make any good for the kid,  for you and for the whole planet". While a compiler is not a child (actually it is - because Intel  C/C++ Compiler is less than 16 years  old yet), the [...]

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Is AVX enabled?

By Victoria Zhislina (Intel) (2 posts) on April 14, 2011 at 3:44 am
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If we ask anyone who  uses or plans to use or just advertises the intrinsic compiler functions for SIMD support (MMX, SSE, AVX):  why do you do so, why it is good? The answer definitely will be something like this:"Intrinsics provide a C/C++ language interface to assembly instructions, so that we don't need to deal with assembler". [...]

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