Getting Started with Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives 2018 (Beta Update) for macOS*

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) is a software library that provides a broad range of functionality, including general signal and image processing, computer vision, data compression, and string manipulation.

Intel IPP is installed as part of the following suite:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE

The library is also provided as a standalone package under the Community Licensing program.

Prerequisites

System Requirements

Build and Run Your First Intel® IPP Application

The code example below represents a short application to help you get started with Intel IPP:

#include "ipp.h"
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   const IppLibraryVersion *lib;
   IppStatus status;
   Ipp64u mask, emask;

   /* Initialize Intel IPP library */
   ippInit();
   /* Get Intel IPP library version info */
   lib = ippGetLibVersion();
   printf("%s %s\n", lib->Name, lib->Version);

   /* Get CPU features and features enabled with selected library level */
   status = ippGetCpuFeatures( &mask, 0 );
   if( ippStsNoErr == status ) {
      emask = ippGetEnabledCpuFeatures();
      printf("Features supported by CPU\tby Intel IPP\n");
      printf("-----------------------------------------\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_MMX        = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_MMX ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_MMX ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) architecture MMX(TM) technology supported\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_SSE        = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_SSE ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_SSE ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Streaming SIMD Extensions\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_SSE2       = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_SSE2 ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_SSE2 ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Streaming SIMD Extensions 2\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_SSE3       = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_SSE3 ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_SSE3 ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Streaming SIMD Extensions 3\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_SSSE3      = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_SSSE3 ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_SSSE3 ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_MOVBE      = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_MOVBE ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_MOVBE ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("The processor supports MOVBE instruction\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_SSE41      = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_SSE41 ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_SSE41 ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_SSE42      = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_SSE42 ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_SSE42 ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_AVX        = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_AVX ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_AVX ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Advanced Vector Extensions instruction set\n");
      printf("  ippAVX_ENABLEDBYOS  = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippAVX_ENABLEDBYOS ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippAVX_ENABLEDBYOS ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("The operating system supports Intel(R) AVX\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_AES        = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_AES ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_AES ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("AES instruction\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_SHA        = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_SHA ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_SHA ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) SHA new instructions\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_CLMUL      = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_CLMUL ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_CLMUL ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("PCLMULQDQ instruction\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_RDRAND     = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_RDRAND ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_RDRAND ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Read Random Number instructions\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_F16C       = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_F16C ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_F16C ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Float16 instructions\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_AVX2       = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_AVX2 ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_AVX2 ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Advanced Vector Extensions 2 instruction set\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_AVX512F    = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_AVX512F ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_AVX512F ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Advanced Vector Extensions 3.1 instruction set\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_AVX512CD   = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_AVX512CD ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_AVX512CD ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Advanced Vector Extensions CD (Conflict Detection) instruction set\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_AVX512ER   = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_AVX512ER ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_AVX512ER ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Advanced Vector Extensions ER instruction set\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_ADCOX      = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_ADCOX ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_ADCOX ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("ADCX and ADOX instructions\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_RDSEED     = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_RDSEED ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_RDSEED ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("The RDSEED instruction\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_PREFETCHW  = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_PREFETCHW ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_PREFETCHW ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("The PREFETCHW instruction\n");
      printf("  ippCPUID_KNC        = ");
      printf("%c\t%c\t",( mask & ippCPUID_KNC ) ? 'Y':'N',( emask & ippCPUID_KNC ) ? 'Y':'N');
      printf("Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Coprocessor instruction set\n");
   }
   return 0;
}

This application consists of three sections:

1. Initialize the Intel IPP library. This stage is required to take advantage of full Intel IPP optimization. With ippInit(), the best implementation layer is dispatched at runtime; otherwise, the least optimized implementation is chosen. If the Intel IPP application runs without ippInit(), the Intel IPP library is auto-initialized with the first call of the Intel IPP function from any domain that is different from ippCore. In certain debugging scenarios, it is helpful to force a specific implementation layer using ippSetCpuFeatures(), instead of the best as chosen by the dispatcher.
2. Get the library layer name and version. You can also get the version information using the ippversion.h file located in the <install_dir>\ipp\include directory.
3. Show the hardware optimizations used by the selected library layer and supported by CPU.

To build the code example above, follow the steps:

1. Paste the code into the editor of your choice.
2. Make sure the compiler and Intel IPP variables are set in your shell. For information on how to set environment variables see Prerequisites.
3. Compile with the following command: icc ipptest.cpp -o ipptest -I $IPPROOT/include -L $IPPROOT/lib/<arch> -lippi -lipps -lippcore. For more information about which Intel IPP libraries you need to link to, see Intel IPP Developer Guide.
4. Run the application.

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