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From: Gautier <Gautier.deMontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: SIMD extensions in Ada :-(.  Was: Re: The Ada Scalar, Vector,
 Matrix  and Tensor arithmetic library?
Date: 1999/12/07
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* What about MIMD that Ada95 can provide (e.g. GNAT) ?
I may be wrong, but MIMD can be much more efficient than
data parallelisation in SIMD.

A link about it... http://fedelma.astro.univie.ac.at/web/

* Another question is: could one day Ada compilers admit
that implementing

  A:= (others=> (others=> 0.0) );

by filling directly the matrix A with 0.0 is as safe as creating
a matrix in the stack, zeroing it, then copying it to A ...
Generally, when direct filling or copy is obiously safe,
it should be implemented as such. (IMHO)

-- 
Gautier

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