because this is what they are about. "Fused" means "no intermediate rounding
between the mul and the add, only one rounding at the end". Instead,
what we are concerned about here is whether a temporary register is needed,
i.e. whether the MUL and ADD are separate instructions.
Concretely, on ARM NEON, a single-instruction mul-add is always available: VMLA.
But a true fused mul-add is only available on VFPv4: VFMA.
* pload* and pset1 are now templated on the packet type
* gemv routines are now embeded into a structure with
a consistent API with respect to gemm
* some configurations of vector * matrix and matrix * matrix works fine,
some need more work...
replaced _mm_prefetch in GeneralBlockPanelKernel.h, with ei_prefetch() inline function.
Implemented NEON and AltiVec versions, copied SSE version over from GeneralBlockPanelKernel.h.
Also in GCC case (or rather !_MSC_VER) it's implemented using __builtin_prefetch().
NEON managed to give a small but welcome boost, 0.88GFLOPS -> 0.91GFLOPS.
Implemented NEON and AltiVec versions, copied SSE version over from GeneralBlockPanelKernel.h.
Also in GCC case (or rather !_MSC_VER) it's implemented using __builtin_prefetch().
NEON managed to give a small but welcome boost, 0.88GFLOPS -> 0.91GFLOPS.
as gcc on ARM (both CodeSourcery 4.4.1 used and experimental 4.5) fail to
ensure proper alignment with __attribute__((aligned(16))). This has to be
fixed upstream to remove the workarounds.
now we also align to 8byte boundary fixed-size objects that are multiple of 8 bytes.
That's only useful for now for double, not e.g. for Vector2f, but that didn't seem to hurt. Am I missing something? Do you prefer that we don't align Vector2f at all?
Also, improvements in test_unalignedassert.
Pommier. They are for float only, and they return exactly the same
result as the standard versions in about 90% of the cases. Otherwise the max error
is below 1e-7. However, for very large values (>1e3) the accuracy of sin and cos
slighlty decrease. They are about 3 or 4 times faster than 4 calls to their respective
standard versions. So, is it ok to enable them by default in their respective functors ?
