Efficient evaluation methods of elementary functions suitable for SIMD computation

Computer Science - Research and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 25-32

  Shibata, Naoki ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elementary functions; SIMD

Indexed keywords

BITWISE OPERATIONS; DATA-PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; ELEMENTARY FUNCTION; EVALUATION METHODS; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; SIMD; SIMD (SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA); TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 77952894844     PISSN: 18652034     EISSN: 18652042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00450-010-0108-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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