Vectorization for SIMD architectures with alignment constraints

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 82-93

  Eichenberger, Alexandre E ^a   Wu, Peng ^a   O'Brien, Kevin ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Compiler; Multimedia ex tensions; SIDM; Simdization; Vectorization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

MULTIMEDIA EXTENSIONS; SIMD; SIMDIZATION; SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA (SIMD); VECTORIZATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 8344245462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/996841.996853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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