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std-simd
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A proposal for the next version of C [pdf]
neither proposing nor taking a position on this possible addition)
> ... For completeness we would also like to add that a serious issue is that C still lacks vector operations.
Those are good points. The authors don't take a stance on it, but I do think that syntax for packed structs should be standardized. IMO, so should syntax for inline assembly (both as optional features). These are already common extensions; this is exactly what they should standardize. The additions of "typeof" and #embed are also good examples of this (they had been talking about adding #embed since 1995 [1]).
As for vector instructions, I'm unsure how it could be implemented in a standard way, but I'm not against it. Maybe something like this [2], but with the syntax changed for C instead of C++.
[1]: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/zWFEXDvyTwM
[2]: https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd
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SIMD Everywhere Optimization from ARM Neon to RISC-V Vector Extensions
Interesting, thanks for sharing :)
At the time we open-sourced Highway, the standardization process had already started and there were some discussions.
I'm curious why stdlib is the only path you see to default? Compare the activity level of https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd vs https://github.com/google/highway. As to open-source usage, after years of std::experimental, I see <200 search hits [1], vs >400 for Highway [2], even after excluding several library users.
But that aside, I'm not convinced standardization is the best path for a SIMD library. We and external users extend Highway on a weekly basis as new use cases arise. What if we deferred those changes to 3-monthly meetings, or had to wait for one meeting per WD, CD, (FCD), DIS, (FDIS) stage before it's standardized? Standardization seems more useful for rarely-changing things.
1: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+std::experim...
2: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+HWY_NAMESPAC...
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SIMD intrinsics and the possibility of a standard library solution
std-simd - 451 GH stars
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Optimizing compilers reload vector constants needlessly
Bad news. For SIMD there are not cross-platform intrinsics. Intel intrinsics map directly to SSE/AVX instructions and ARM intrinsics map directly to NEON instructions.
For cross-platform, your best bet is probably https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd
There's https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page But, it's tremendously complicated for anything other than large-scale linear algebra.
And, there's https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXMath But, it has obvious biases :P
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SPO 600 project part 3 - Analysis
But after I worked with auto-vectorization(I wrote about that in part 2), I decided to switch and try myself by adding intrinsics if I was able. You can track my progress here:https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd/pull/35
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SPO600 project part 2
STD-SIMD it's almost the same project I was working, but a bit advance https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd.
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The Efficiency of Multithreaded Loops
If you are worried about Intel vs Arm vs whatever, use https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd
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Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [pdf]
or https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp which help quite a bit. Or https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd.
If you want GUIs, same, you have at least (but not only) Qt or WxWidgets.
Want to interface scripting? Pybind11, Boost.Python, WrenBind17 for Wren, Sol2 for Lua... and all things that interface to C work also if you feel brave...
I really think that when it is about getting the job done... C++ goes a long way towards the task.
This is my 20 year experience of C++, almost 13 of those years professionally. Now, back to read the paper. :)
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All C++20 core language features with examples
... I just checked your link and wouldn't say that any of these languages have SIMD more than C++ has it currently -
- Java: incubation stage (how is that different from https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd). Also Java is only getting it soonish for... amd64 and aarch64 ??
OpenBLAS
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LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs
The Fortran implementation is just a reference implementation. The goal of reference BLAS [0] is to provide relatively simple and easy to understand implementations which demonstrate the interface and are intended to give correct results to test against. Perhaps an exceptional Fortran compiler which doesn't yet exist could generate code which rivals hand (or automatically) tuned optimized BLAS libraries like OpenBLAS [1], MKL [2], ATLAS [3], and those based on BLIS [4], but in practice this is not observed.
Justine observed that the threading model for LLaMA makes it impractical to integrate one of these optimized BLAS libraries, so she wrote her own hand-tuned implementations following the same principles they use.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprogra...
[1] https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS
[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/onea...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatically_Tuned_Linear_Alg...
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIS_(software)
- Assume I'm an idiot - oogabooga LLaMa.cpp??!
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Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch
Yeah. I'm going to be helping to work on expanding CI for OpenBlas and have been diving into this stuff lately. See the discussion in this closed OpenBlas issue gh-1968 [0] for instance. OpenBlas's Skylake kernels do rely on intrinsics [1] for compilers that support them, but there's a wide range of architectures to support, and when hand-tuned assembly kernels work better, that's what are used. For example, [2].
[0] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/1968
[1] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/develop/kernel/x86_6...
[2] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/23693f09a26ffd8b60eb...
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AI’s compute fragmentation: what matrix multiplication teaches us
We'll have to wait until part 2 to see what they are actually proposing, but they are trying to solve a real problem. To get a sense of things check out the handwritten assembly kernels in OpenBlas [0]. Note the level of granularity. There are micro-optimized implementations for specific chipsets.
If progress in ML will be aided by a proliferation of hyper-specialized hardware, then there really is a scalability issue around developing optimized matmul routines for each specialized chip. To be able to develop a custom ASIC for a particular application and then easily generate the necessary matrix libraries without having to write hand-crafted assembly for each specific case seems like it could be very powerful.
[0] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/tree/develop/kernel
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Trying downloading BCML
libraries mkl_rt not found in ['C:\python\lib', 'C:\', 'C:\python\libs'] ``` Install this and try again. Might need to reboot, never know with Windows https://www.openblas.net/
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The Bitter Truth: Python 3.11 vs Cython vs C++ Performance for Simulations
There isn't any fortran code in the repo there itself but numpy itself can be linked with several numeric libraries. If you look through the wheels for numpy available on pypi, all the latest ones are packaged with OpenBLAS which uses Fortran quite a bit: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS
- Optimizing compilers reload vector constants needlessly
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Just a quick question, can a programming language be as fast as C++ and efficient with as simple syntax like Python?
Sure - write functions in another language, export C bindings, and then call those functions from Python. An example is NumPy - a lot of its linear algebra functions are implemented in C and Fortran.
- OpenBLAS - optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version
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How to include external libraries?
Read the official docs yet?
What are some alternatives?
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blaze
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