[pypy-dev] Status of SSE support?

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 18:41:10 CEST 2014


i would say a bit more than that :-)

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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