Re: Ada and SIMD

[Adrian Hoe <abyhoe@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the information. I am looking for SIMD support to port a
PRNG to Ada.

Is there any Ada packages out there for SIMD support?
--
Adrian Hoe
http://adrianhoe.net


On Sep 18, 6:22 pm, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote:
> Ada does have the ability to use SIMD, the only problem is the underlying
> packages. The standard Ada packages do not include a vectorization
> package. But with that understanding, Ada 83 as been use to preform
> vectorization since 83/84.
>
> Anyone can create a SIMD package with the constructs for Ada, To fully
> use the Intel Core-2 multi-core processing all it takes is to use
> System.Machine_code package for the assembly code and create a package
> that would contain the types and procedures to preform the vectorization.
> Like:
>    type Vector_Integer is range -( 2 ** 127 ) .. ( 2 ** 127 - 1 ) ;
>
> Also, there may be a doctoral project or two that may perform some SIMD
> or vectorization in Ada with the Pentium-D, that can be either used or
> updated to the Core-2 Dual.
>
> In <1189996579.648567.17...@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,  Adrian Hoe <aby...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >Hi,
>
> >Does anyone have any idea or experience with Ada on SIMD (Singe
> >Instruction, Multiple Data)? And also multi-stage pipelining and of
> >course SIMD (e.g. 128-bit integer) on Intel Core 2 Duo and equivalent
> >processors?
>
> >Has anybody done any kind of such implementation and how Ada is doing
> >with SIMD?
>
> >Thanks.
> >--
> >Adrian Hoe
> >http://adrianhoe.net