highway

Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch (by google)

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highway reviews and mentions

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  • Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times for AMD Zen 4
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2024
    The bf16 dot instruction replaces 6 instructions: https://github.com/google/highway/blob/master/hwy/ops/x86_12...
  • JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024
    [0] for those interested in Highway.

    It's also mentioned in [1], which starts off

    > Today we're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort, and outperforms state of the art architecture-specific algorithms, while being portable across all modern CPU architectures. Below we discuss how we achieved this.

    [0] https://github.com/google/highway

    [1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%2..., which has an associated paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05982.pdf.

  • Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
    Thanks so much!

    Everyone working on this self-selected into contributing, so I think of it less as my team than ... a team?

    Specifically want to call out: Jan Wassenberg (author of https://github.com/google/highway) and I started gemma.cpp as a small project just a few months ago + Phil Culliton, Dan Zheng, and Paul Chang + of course the GDM Gemma team.

  • From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    C++ users can enjoy Highway [1].

    [1] https://github.com/google/highway/

  • GDlog: A GPU-Accelerated Deductive Engine
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023
  • Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2023
    At that point it is better to have some kind of DSL that should not be in the main language, because it would target a much lower level than a typical program. The best effort I've seen in this scene was Google's Highway [1] (not to be confused with HighwayHash) and I even once attempted to recreate it in Rust, but it is still distanced from my ideal.

    [1] https://github.com/google/highway

  • SIMD Everywhere Optimization from ARM Neon to RISC-V Vector Extensions
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
    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...

  • Permuting Bits with GF2P8AFFINEQB
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2023
    Thanks for the link. We were previously using GFNI for bit reversal and 8-bit shifts, and I just extended that to our 8-bit BroadcastSignBit (https://github.com/google/highway/pull/1784).
  • Six times faster than C
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jul 2023
    You could study Google's Highway library [1].

    [1] https://github.com/google/highway

  • AMD EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” CPUs: 128 Zen 4c CPU Cores for Servers, Shipping Now
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
    Runtime feature detection need not be rare nor hard, it's a few dozen lines of boilerplate. You can even write your code just once: see https://github.com/google/highway#examples.
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google/highway is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of highway is C++.


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