[pypy-dev] Status of SSE support?

[Alex Gaynor]

There aren't any primitives for this right now, no. I'd say it would be
medium level of difficult to add support to the JIT for this, probably a
day of work for someone who knew the codebase, a few days for someone
learning it.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldridge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've read a few older articles about SIMD support in PyPy, what is the
> status of this? If I wanted to add something like a Vector3 type to my
> language (like mono did here
> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Nov-03.html) and wanted to take
> advantage of SSE are there primitives for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Timothy
>
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