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From: Guillaume Foliard <guifo@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Ada and vectorization
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:56:06 +0200
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Hello,

I start to learn how to use the Intel's SSE instruction set in Ada programs 
with inline assembly. And while reading Intel documentation (1) I was 
asking myself if Ada could provide a clean way of vectorization through its 
strong-typed approach. Could it be sensible, for the next Ada revision, to 
create some new attributes for array types to explicitly hint the compiler 
that we want to use SIMD instructions ?
Language lawyers comments are definitly welcome. As SIMD in modern general 
purpose processors is largely available nowadays (SSE, SSE2, Altivec, 
etc...), IMHO, it would be a mistake for Ada to ignore the performance 
benefit this could bring.

(1)
http://www.intel.com/software/products/college/ia32/strmsimd/814down.htm

Guillaume Foliard