[Beowulf] [rjdyer at vcu.edu: Re: Intel?]
Eugen Leitl
eugen at leitl.org
Wed Jun 8 08:39:11 PDT 2005
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:21:34AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
> for instance, altivec has 32x128 and x86-64 has "only" 16x128.
> but how relevant is this? studies of conventional reg-set usage
> show diminishing returns after about 16 regs.
>
> GCC now seems to have reasonably nice support for vector operations,
> on top of the intrinsics, and even some auto-vectorization. any
> preliminary reports of experience with gcc 4?
In related vein, IBM is going to present a Cell workstation at the Linuxtag
Karlsruhe http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/60391 and is generally
promising to open up Cell http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/60402
(all links in German).
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