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MIPP
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I'm the main author of Highway, so I have some opinions :D Number of operations/platforms supported are important criteria.
A hopefully unbiased commentary:
Simde allows you to take existing nonportable intrinsics and get them to run on another platform. This is useful when you have a bunch of existing code and tight deadlines. The downside is less than optimal performance - a portable abstraction can be more efficient than forcing one platform to exactly match the semantics of another. Although a ton of effort has gone into Simde, sometimes it also resorts to autovectorization which may or may not work.
Eigen and SLEEF are mostly math-focused projects that also have a portability layer. SLEEF is designed for C and thus has type suffixes which are rather verbose, see https://github.com/shibatch/sleef/blob/master/src/libm/sleef... But it offers a complete (more so than Highway's) libm.
I was curious about these libraries a few weeks ago and did some searching. Is there one that's got a clearly dominating set of users or contributors?
I don't know what a good way to compare these might be, other than perhaps activity/contributor count.
[1] https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde
[2] https://github.com/ermig1979/Simd
[3] https://github.com/google/highway
[4] https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen
[5] https://github.com/shibatch/sleef
I was curious about these libraries a few weeks ago and did some searching. Is there one that's got a clearly dominating set of users or contributors?
I don't know what a good way to compare these might be, other than perhaps activity/contributor count.
[1] https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde
[2] https://github.com/ermig1979/Simd
[3] https://github.com/google/highway
[4] https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen
[5] https://github.com/shibatch/sleef
I was curious about these libraries a few weeks ago and did some searching. Is there one that's got a clearly dominating set of users or contributors?
I don't know what a good way to compare these might be, other than perhaps activity/contributor count.
[1] https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde
[2] https://github.com/ermig1979/Simd
[3] https://github.com/google/highway
[4] https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen
[5] https://github.com/shibatch/sleef
I was curious about these libraries a few weeks ago and did some searching. Is there one that's got a clearly dominating set of users or contributors?
I don't know what a good way to compare these might be, other than perhaps activity/contributor count.
[1] https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde
[2] https://github.com/ermig1979/Simd
[3] https://github.com/google/highway
[4] https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen
[5] https://github.com/shibatch/sleef
I've also run into this thinking, and have been looking to solve it in codebases I'm working on.
I've run across: https://github.com/aff3ct/MIPP but have not worked with it extensively yet. It looks to be a solution to the rewriting X parallel pipeline into Y SIMD extensions.
Perhaps something like this, or languages introducing something similar into their standard libraries/modules would be a solution.
None of this of course solves the run-time detection of capability/growing binary size to support such.