Vector Intrinsics Porting Guide
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2018-03-14
The goal of this project is to provide functional equivalents of the Intel MMX, SSE, and AVX intrinsic functions, that are commonly used in Linux applications, and make them (or equivalents) available for the PowerPC64LE platform.
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- version 0.3 2017-10-30Updates to describe issues associated with larger vector sizes and proposed solutions
- version 0.2 2017-09-14Miscellaneous correction for spelling, grammar and punctuation
- version 0.1 2017-07-26initial draft from Steve Munroe
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