Vector Intrinsics Porting Guide

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 1.0 2018-03-14
    Minor updates for Published version
  • version 0.3 2017-10-30
    Updates to describe issues associated with larger vector sizes and proposed solutions
  • version 0.2 2017-09-14
    Miscellaneous correction for spelling, grammar and punctuation
  • version 0.1 2017-07-26
    initial draft from Steve Munroe
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