SIMD Programming Manual for Linux and Windows - Cockshott, Paul

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Résumé :
All modern PCs provide SIMD processing but there are no practical programming books telling you how to use it. Use of these techniques can allow programs to run 8 to 10 times faster than conventional programs on the same computer. The book enables high-level language programmers to make effective use of a technology that at present is known to and utilised only by a handful of developers. They could write graphics programs that were much faster as a result. This will be of interest to practitioners of games programming, image processing, medical image analysis, video processing etc....

Sommaire:
I SIMD Programming.- 1 Computer Speed, Program Speed.- 2 SIMD Instruction-sets.- 3 SIMD Programming in Assembler and C.- 4 Intel SIMD Instructions.- 5 3DNOW Instructions.- II SIMD Programming Languages.- 6 Another Approach: Data Parallel Languages.- 7 Basics of Vector Pascal.- 8 Algorithmic Features of Vector Pascal.- 9 User-defined Types.- 10 Input and Output.- 11 Permutations and Polymorphism.- III Programming Examples.- 12 Advanced Set Programming.- 13 Parallel Image Processing.- 14 Pattern Recognition and Image Compression.- 15 3D Graphics.- IV VIPER.- 16 Introduction to VIPER.- Appendix A Compiler Porting Tools.- A.1 Dependencies.- A.2 Compiler Structure.- A.2.1 Vectorisation.- A.2.2 Porting Strategy.- A.3 ILCG.- A.4 Supported Types.- A.4.1 Data Formats.- A.4.2 Typed Formats.- A.4.3 ref Types.- A.5 Supported Operations.- A.5.1 Type Casts.- A.5.2 Arithmetic.- A.5.3 Memory.- A.5.4 Assignment.- A.5.5 Dereferencing.- A.6 Machine Description.- A.6.1 Registers.- A.6.2 Register Sets.- A.6.3 Register Arrays.- A.6.4 Register Stacks.- A.6.5 Instruction Formats.- A.7 Grammar of ILCG.- A.8 ILCG Grammar.- A.8.1 Helpers.- A.8.2 Tokens.- A.8.3 Non-terminal Symbols.- Appendix B Software Download.- Appendix C Using the Command Line Compiler.- C.1 Invoking the Compiler.- C.1.1 Environment Variable.- C.1.2 Compiler Options.- C.1.3 Dependencies.- C.2 Calling Conventions.- C.3 Array Representation.- C.3.1 Range Checking.- References.