From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8699b57cedf0852c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adrian Hoe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and SIMD Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:26:23 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190172383.802381.274670@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: <1189996579.648567.17960@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.53.16.156 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190172384 30512 127.0.0.1 (19 Sep 2007 03:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:26:24 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.53.16.156; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2028 Date: 2007-09-19T03:26:23+00:00 List-Id: 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 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