The library supports the following architectures and instruction sets:
- x86, x86-64: SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4, AVX512F,
AVX512BW, AVX512DQ, AVX512VL, XOP - ARM 32-bit: NEON, NEONv2
- ARM 64-bit: NEON, NEONv2
- PowerPC 32-bit big-endian: Altivec, VSX v2.06, VSX v2.07
- PowerPC 64-bit little-endian: Altivec, VSX v2.06, VSX v2.07
- MIPS 32-bit little-endian: MSA
- MIPS 64-bit little-endian: MSA
Supported compilers:
-
C++11 version:
- GCC: 4.8-7.x
- Clang: 3.3-4.0
- Xcode 7.0-9.x
- MSVC: 2013, 2015, 2017
- ICC (on both Linux and Windows): 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
-
C++98 version
- GCC: 4.4-7.x
- Clang: 3.3-4.0
- Xcode 7.0-9.x
- MSVC: 2013, 2015, 2017
- ICC (on both Linux and Windows): 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Newer versions of the aforementioned compilers will generally work with either
C++11 or C++98 version of the library. Older versions of these compilers will
generally work with the C++98 version of the library.
Changes since v2.0:
- Various bug fixes
- Documentation has been significantly improved. The public API is now almost
fully documented. - Added support for MIPS MSA instruction set.
- Added support for PowerPC VSX v2.06 and v2.07 instruction sets.
- Added support for x86 AVX512BW, AVX512DQ and AVX512VL instruction sets.
- Added support for 64-bit little-endian PowerPC.
- Added support for arbitrary width vectors in
extract()andinsert(). - Added support for arbitrary source vectors to
to_int8(),to_uint8(),
to_int16(),to_uint16(),to_int32(),to_uint32(),to_int64(),to_uint64(),
to_float32(),to_float64(). - Added support for per-element integer shifts to
shift_r()andshift_l().
Fallback paths are provided for SSE2-AVX instruction sets that lack
hardware per-element integer shift support. - Make
shuffle_bytes16(),shuffle_zbytes16(),permute_bytes16()and
permute_zbytes()more generic. - New functions:
popcnt,reduce_popcnt,for_each,to_mask(). - Xcode is now supported.
- The library has been refactored in such a way that older compilers are able
to optimize vector emulation code paths much better than before. - Deprecation: implicit conversion operators to native vector types has been
deprecated and a replacement method has been provided instead. The implicit
conversion operators may lead to wrong code being accepted without a
compile error on Clang.