[pypy-dev] Status of SSE support?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

I think that part can be resurrected from some branch, I added it at
some point. The problem is that you need aligned data access and the
responsibility is on the user of this primitive

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm talking about an explicit "vector_3f_add()" primitive, would be pretty
> straightforward to do the mapping. IIRC it took us less than a day to add
> READ_TIMESTAMP instruction.
>
> Alex
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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