Using SSE to make four calculations in parallel

Patrick Pelissier patrick.pelissier at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 12:55:44 CEST 2010


Hi,

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jez <jezreel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking of using GMP for a fractal program. From reading the docs, I
> gather that SSE isn't used very extensively in GMP because the instructions
> aren't really suited for the problem. However, it would be great if I could
> get GMP to do four different calculations in parallel via SSE registers. Is
> this functionality currently available?

 No

>Would it be difficult to hack up
> this feature?

 Yes, very, very hard.

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 Sincerely,
  Patrick Pélissier


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