generic simd and c++

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu> writes:

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| Am Mit, 2002-07-31 um 21.59 schrieb Benjamin Kosnik:
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| > Somebody should just make a template specialization of std::vector that
| > uses the simd extensions. See <vector> and perhaps the vector<bool>
| > specialization already in place if you're curious.
| 
| I'm curious how you think this might work. What should the template
| parameter be? SIMD instructions are somewhat different from typical
| containter operations and would require special methods while some 
| operations a vector specialisation needs would be hardly implementable
| and probably not make much sense.
| 
| Maybe I'm just thinking in the wrong direction so please show me the
| way.... :)

Actually, I thought the Altivec vector workd Aldy did may be extended
to support valarray<>.  I didn't reallywork hard; but I think it is
doable.  For fixed sized valarray<>.

-- Gaby