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===Future=== | ===Future=== | ||
* [http://software.intel.com/en-us/avx/ AVX] (Advanced Vector eXtensions) -- to be introduced on Intel's Sandy Bridge (2010) and AMD's Bulldozer (2011), and implemented within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEX_prefix VEX coding scheme] | * [http://software.intel.com/en-us/avx/ AVX] (Advanced Vector eXtensions) -- to be introduced on Intel's Sandy Bridge (2010) and AMD's Bulldozer (2011), and implemented within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEX_prefix VEX coding scheme] | ||
* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_instruction_set FMA instruction set] extension to x86 should hit around 2011, providing floating-point fused multiply-add | |||
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*<tt>[http://www.sesp.cse.clrc.ac.uk/html/SoftwareTools/vtune/users_guide/mergedProjects/analyzer_ec/mergedProjects/reference_olh/mergedProjects/instructions/instruct32_hh/vc210.htm mulps]</tt> -- multiply four packed singles. the multiplier is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the multiplicand. | *<tt>[http://www.sesp.cse.clrc.ac.uk/html/SoftwareTools/vtune/users_guide/mergedProjects/analyzer_ec/mergedProjects/reference_olh/mergedProjects/instructions/instruct32_hh/vc210.htm mulps]</tt> -- multiply four packed singles. the multiplier is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the multiplicand. | ||
*<tt>[http://www.sesp.cse.clrc.ac.uk/html/SoftwareTools/vtune/users_guide/mergedProjects/analyzer_ec/mergedProjects/reference_olh/mergedProjects/instructions/instruct32_hh/vc9a.htm addps]</tt> -- add four packed singles. the addend is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the augend. | *<tt>[http://www.sesp.cse.clrc.ac.uk/html/SoftwareTools/vtune/users_guide/mergedProjects/analyzer_ec/mergedProjects/reference_olh/mergedProjects/instructions/instruct32_hh/vc9a.htm addps]</tt> -- add four packed singles. the addend is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the augend. | ||
==Other Architectures== | ==Other Architectures== | ||
Revision as of 20:50, 19 September 2009
x86
- Terminology:
- single: 32-bit IEEE 754 floating-point (bias-127)
- double: 64-bit IEEE 754 floating-point (bias-1023)
- long double: 80-bit "double extended" IEEE 754-1985 floating-point (excess-16383)
- not an actual SIMD type, but an artifact of x87
- word: 32-bit two's complement integer
- doubleword, dword: 64-bit two's complement integer
- These do not necessarily map to the C data types of the same name, for any given compiler!
Future
- AVX (Advanced Vector eXtensions) -- to be introduced on Intel's Sandy Bridge (2010) and AMD's Bulldozer (2011), and implemented within the VEX coding scheme
- The FMA instruction set extension to x86 should hit around 2011, providing floating-point fused multiply-add
SSE4
SSE4a
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
SSE3
- movddup -- move a double from a 8-byte-aligned memory location or lower half of XMM register to upper half, then duplicate upper half to lower half
SSSE3
- pmaddwd -- multiply packed words, then horizontally sum pairs, accumulating into doublewords
SSE2
- movapd -- move two packed doubles from a 16-byte-aligned memory location to XMM registers, or vice versa, or between two XMM registers.
- movupd -- movapd safe for unaligned memory references, with far inferior performance.
- mulpd -- multiply two packed doubles. the multiplier is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the multiplicand.
- addpd -- add two packed doubles. the addend is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the augend.
SSE
- movaps -- move four packed singles from a 16-byte-aligned memory location to XMM registers, or vice versa, or between two XMM registers.
- movups -- movaps safe for unaligned memory references, with far inferior performance.
- mulps -- multiply four packed singles. the multiplier is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the multiplicand.
- addps -- add four packed singles. the addend is a 16-byte-aligned memory location or XMM register. the target XMM register serves as the augend.
Other Architectures
- PowerPC implements AltiVec
See Also
- "Why no FMA in AVX in Sandy Bridge?", Intel Developers Forum
- SSE5 guide at AMD
- 2007-04-19 post to http://virtualdub.org, "SSE4 finally adds dot products"
